Dr. Junkal Landaburu-Aguirre is a researcher at the IMDEA Water Institute. She obtained an MSc (Chemistry) in 2004 from the University of Basque Country, Spain. She started her PhD studies in 2006 in the Environmental and Chemical Engineering group of the University of Oulu, Finland, from where she obtained her doctoral degree in 2012. She joined IMDEA Water in January 2015 with a Marie Curie AMAROUT II fellowship. Currently, she is focused on the implementation of membrane technology (membrane bioreactors and pressure-driven membranes) for wastewater treatment, desalination, pre-concentration, and removal of emerging compounds such as micronanoplastics. In addition, she is also involved in a research group focused on membrane recycling and Life Cycle Assessment.