Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT)

http://www.upct.es/

Technical University of Cartagena, as known as UPCT, is a public university based in Cartagena, Murcia. It has schools mainly specialized in Engineering, Architecture and Business Administration studies. It was founded in 1998.

Raúl Zornoza

• Project Coordinator
• raul.zornoza@upct.es
• 0034 868 071 130
• @zornoza_raul

PhD in Environmental Sciences. Expert in soil quality and degradation, soil recovery, organic matter dynamics and sustainable soil management practices.

Ángel Faz

• Coordination team
• angel.fazcano@upct.es
• 0034 968 325 764

María Dolores Gómez-López

• WP2 leader
• lola.gomez@upct.es
• 0034 968 325 668

Francisco Alcón

• francisco.alcon@upct.es
• 0034 968 327 015

Francisco Alcón is Associate Professor at UPCT. Agricultural Engineer specialized in agrarian economy, with special interest in economics, natural resources management and innovation economics.

Javier Calatrava

• j.calatrava@upct.es

Francisco Campuzano

• francisco.campuzano@upct.es

Catalina Egea

• catalina.egea@upct.es
• 0034 968 325 520

Degree in Chemistry, PhD in Biochemistry and Professor of Plant Physiology. The lines of research are based on plant defense, stress induction to increase the nutritional quality of the plant, and molecular characterization of plant genetic resources.

Marcos Egea-Cortines

• marcos.egea@upct.es
• 0034 868 071 077
• @MarcosEgeaCorti

I studied Biology in at the University of Murcia (Spain). I did my PhD at Ben-Gurion University studying tomato fruit development. I did two post doctoral stays at the Technion (Israel) and Max Planck Institute für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung (Germany). I am associate professor of Genetics and my main interest is developmental biology and DNA technologies.

Juan A. Fernández

• juan.fernandez@upct.es
• 0034 636 998 620
• @_juanfern

Dr. Juan A. Fernández, is Vegetable Crops professor at Technical University of Cartagena. His research activity focuses on growing technologies in both open air and protected cultivation, nitrogen fertilization and nitrate pollution and molecular and morphological characterization of genetic resources.

Mathieu Kessler

• mathieu.kessler@upct.es
• 0034 968 338 901
• @kessler_mathieu

Mathieu Kessler received the Ph.D. degree in statistics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Over the last years he has become increasingly interested in applications of statistics and data mining. Currently, he is a full profesor at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain.

Julia Weiss

• julia.weiss@upct.es
• 0034 978 325 777

Agricultural Engineer from the University of Bonn, Germany. Doctor of Ben-Gurion University of Israel. Postdoctorate at the Max Planck Institute für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung (Germany). Professor at UPCT in the area of Genetics. Research on developmental biology.

Silvia Martínez-Martínez

• silvia.martinez@upct.es

Silvia Martínez is a professor at UPCT. Doctor in Agronomy. It belongs to the R&D&I Group "Management, Development and Recovery of Soil and Water" (GARSA). Main lines of research: agronomic valorisation of by-products, environmental rehabilitation of degraded sites, energy use of non-renewable natural resources by-products and wastewater treatment systems: artificial wetlands.

Alejandro Pérez-Pastor

• alex.perez-pastor@upct.es

David Martínez-Granados

• david.martinez@upct.es

(Archena, 1979) is an Agricultural Engineer (2006) and holds a PhD in Agricultural Engineering (2015) from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena. Its scientific activity is framed in the agricultural economy and natural resources, its main line of work being focused on the economics of irrigation. Between 2007 and 2017, he has participated as a contracted researcher in 7 European and national projects, highlighting the European projects IRRIQUAL and IRRIMAN Life+, and the projects of the National R&D and Innovation Plan NATAG and MERCAGUA, as well as in 4 contracts of consultancy and technical assistance for public administrations and companies, and he has worked in the company TRAGSA giving support to the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura in the adoption and updating of the economic analyses required by the following companies. In 2014 and 2016, he has been awarded two national research prizes by the Botín Foundation and the Aquae Foundation, the latter for the best doctoral thesis on water economics at a national level. He also teaches in the Economics, Sociology and Agrarian Policy Department of the UPCT and has published 11 articles in indexed journals, 6 chapters in books and presented several papers in congresses and seminars.

Jose F. Maestre-Valero

• josef.maestre@upct.es
• 0034 968 325 658

Dr. José Maestre has been a Professor and Researcher at UPCT since 2015. Previously, he received his PhD at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and worked at CEBAS-CSIC from 2013 to 2015 in the irrigation department. He is an expert in "Crop production under hydric stress","Irrigation water management" and "Irrigation with non-conventional water resources".

Bernardo Martín-Gorriz

• b.martin@upct.es
• 0034 968 325 904
• @bernardo9284

Dr. Bernardo Martin-Gorriz is Professor of Biosystems Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena since 1999. His research activity covers several topics including energy-water nexus and GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions in agriculture. Has participated in four public research projects funded by the European Union and eight projects funded by the Spanish Government, as well as numerous research contract with companies. Has authored more than fifty academic references, including thirty-five articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Virginia Sánchez Navarro

• virginia.sanchez@upct.es
• 0034 968 327 073

Degree in Biology from the University of Murcia. I belong to the R&D&I Group "Management, Development and Recovery of Soils and Water" (GARSA), where I finished my doctoral studies. Main lines of research: sustainable cultivation of grain legumes: soil fertility, plant nutrition, greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration.