MY EXPERIENCE
January 2024 - currently
PRODUCTION AND R&D MANAGER
- Managing the production of seedlings including conditioning of mother plants, cultivation of gametophytes, sporophytes and cultivation of seedlings.
- Responsible of planning and execute hatchery R&D tasks for continuously improve and update the cultivation protocols.
- Coordinating and participating in installation and maintenance of new and existing hatchery infrastructure.
- Management and follow-up research projects related to the hatchery.
- Planning, designing and writing research proposals
at Seaweed Solutions
Field: Seaweed industry
January 2021 - 2023
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COORDINATOR
- Monitoring the growth and quality of the seaweed from the farm
- Collection, management and analysis of data
- Planning and execution of hatchery and sea R&D tasks and improve the cultivation protocols and improve the yield and quality at sea
- Management and follow-up environmental research projects.
- Cultivation and hatchery researcher
at Seaweed Solutions AS
Field: Seaweed industry
July-December 2020
SEAWEED CULTIVATION ASSISTANT
I am part of the hatchery team. We are in charge to produce the seeded substrate for kelp cultivation since the mother plants arrive to the lab until they are ready to go to Sea. I am also involved in planning and executing hatchery R&D tasks to improve protocols and procedure for cultivation and the environmental quality department (Seaweed Solutions AS)
Field: Seaweed industry
April-July 2020
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY TECHNICIAN
Collection of seawater and seaweed samples for monitoring purposes and quality control, and maintenance of seaweed cultures in the laboratory as Seaweed Solutions AS.
Field: Seaweed industry
December 2019- March 2020
RESEARCHER AND PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Seasonal job working as a research assistant working for the implementation of new protocol to improve the quality of the final product and working in the production line at Planktonic AS.
Field: aquaculture and fisheries
October-December 2019
LABORATORY ASSISTANT
Seasonal job as a laboratory assistant for cryopreservation of milk from fish in Cryogenetics AS.
Field: aquaculture and fisheries
2019-2021
RESEARCHER
Coast-LaB project (Norwegian-Africa cooperation): “Impact of land-based activities to the coastal environment: Seawater desalination and wastewater discharge”. This position as affiliated researcher at NTNU involves a collaboration on the field work and experiments in Durban in December 2019 and papers writing.
Field: environmental chemistry and marine microbiology.
2018-2021
RESEARCHER
MASEQATA project (Chile-Norway cooperation): “Marine Sediment Quality Atacama”. The collaboration role is enclosed into the WP2. (Inorganic compounds characterization) with sample preparation, processing and analytical
determination by means of ICP-MS; WP5 (Environmental risk mapping) to determine
hazard quotients; and WP7 (Divulgation of project results).
Field: environmental chemistry
2016-2019
OPERATIONAL COORDINATOR (POSTDOC RESEARCHER)
TrykkCO2 project “Environmental impacts of leakage from sub-seabed CO2 storage” funded by Norwegian Research Council (NRC). This position involved responsibility for planning, conducting experiments, writing scientific reports and reporting changes in the project to the project leader
Field: environmental chemistry, marine microbiology and ecotoxicology.
2016-2017
RESEARCHER
CO2Marine EU project (Polish-Norwegian cooperation): “Impact of potential leakage from the sub-seabed CO2 storage site on marine environment at relevant hydrostatic pressure”. This position involved sampling (for both microbiological and chemical analysis) and supervision of 2 Ms Students.
Field: environmental chemistry, marine microbiology and ecotoxicology.
2012-2014
PH. D STUDENT
CTM2011-28437-CO2-02 project“Mobility and toxicity of metals in sediments due to possible leakage of CO2” funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain. During this position I could develop my Doctoral Thesis.
Field: marine chemistry, microbiology and ecotoxicology
March 2011
MS STUDENT
MALASPINA project funded by the Spanish Government. During this project I could develop my Ms Thesis collecting samples on board of B/O Sarmiento de Gamboa from Santo Domingo (Republica Dominicana) to Vigo (Spain)
Field: chemical oceanography