Dr. Romero has more than 25 years of experience investigating the processes and mechanisms which control the pollutants dynamic in the environment and to developing low-cost technologies to prevent and protect the quality of soils and waters against organic pollutants, such as pesticides and emerging contaminants. She has initiated studies on news bioaugmentation alternatives with microbial consortia and identifying degraders strains of pesticides, pharmaceutical products and biocides. She has published 79 articles in journals with the highest impact factor according JCR index. She is a member of the Editorial committee of different journals, among others Frontiers in Microbiology