Dr. Andres Rodríguez-Seijo

I've a PhD at Universidade de Vigo (UVigo) (Spain) in the soil science area. My PhD thesis (2013-16), supervised by Dra. Maria Luisa Andrade Couce and Dra. Maria Flora Alonso Vega was focused on the behaviour of heavy metals in urban and military soils and remediation strategies for those soils. During my PhD, I had a fellowship from the UVigo, and I performed pre-, and postdoc stays in the Universidade do Porto (UP) (Portugal) (5 months, 2015-2016 and 2 months 2016-2017, respectively) to learn several ecotoxicological techniques. During the first stay, I also began to work on the impact of microplastics (MP) on agricultural soils, focusing on earthworms' impact, key organisms for soil biodiversity and sustainable agriculture. This was my main research line during my postdoctoral experience outside Spain (4.5 years), first at GreenUPorto as an integrated researcher (Nov.17-Feb19), and in March 2019, at the CIIMAR-UP with a FCT Junior researcher contract. In May 2022, I moved to UVigo as a “Juan de la Cierva-Incorporacion” fellow.