Dr Andrea Garduño Jiménez
- Position: Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: Liquid-chromatography mass-spectrometry; targeted, untargeted and omics analysis; sub-lethal plant effects; wastewater treatment; fate of emerging pollutants; decolonising environmental science
- Email: A.L.GardunoJimenez@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Researchgate
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Andrea is an environmental engineer, with expertise in analytical and environmental chemistry. Her work is driven by an interest in waste valorisation for positive social and environmental impacts in the context of environmental justice. Currently Andrea is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds working on a project to understand the risks posed by emerging pollutants entering the agricultural environment. Her current work is on understanding sub-lethal and hereditary effects of pharmaceuticals on plants. She is also part of SPADE, a community science project to understand the extent of chemical pollution in UK agricultural soils following biosolid, slurry and manure application to soil.
Her broader interests include omics techniques to aid in identifying molecular changes in an organism from biotic or abiotic stressors. Further interests include transdisciplinary research in the context of decolonising environmental science. In 2023 she was awarded a White Rose Collaborative grant as a PI (£15 k) to undertake a transdisciplinary project to engage farmers in the topic of emerging pollutants in the agri-ecosystem: From Circular Economy to Soil Health. This project aims to open up a dialogue between farmers and academics around the benefits and practicalities of waste reuse as agricultural fertilisers and the negative effects associated to the emerging contaminants often present in these waste streams.
2022-ongoing: Research Fellow in Environmental Chemistry, University of Leeds
2021-2022: Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Nottingham and National Autonomous University of Mexico
2016-2021: Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham
2012-2016: BEng in Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham
Research interests
Waste valorisation in agriculture.
Omics techniques to understand sub-lethal effects of biotic and abiotic stressors.
Environmental fate of pollutants.
Analytical method development (targeted, untargeted LC-MS/MS analysis, metabolomics, proteomics)
Decoloninisg environmental science