Dr. maría asensio ramos
External collaborator. Researcher Technological Institute and Renewable Energies (ITER)
María obtained her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of La Laguna (ULL) in September 2002, finishing in June 2007 with an Extraordinary Prize. During the last course she enjoyed a Predoctoral Collaboration Scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Science in the Department of Analytical Chemistry.
She began her doctoral studies in September 2008 in the same department, with a CajaCanarias Research Scholarship for postgraduates and later a University Teacher Training contract (FPU) from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. At the end of 2010 she did a 4-month predoctoral stay at the Institute of Chemical Methodologies of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome (Italy) where she did part of her doctoral thesis. In July 2012 she presented her Doctoral Thesis with International Mention, entitled “New procedures for the extraction and determination of pesticides in environmental samples”, obtaining the qualification of Apto Cum Laude (maximum qualification according to current regulations). She obtained the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in the area of Sciences for the 2011/2012 academic year.
Between July 2012 and June 2013, she got a CajaCanarias Scholarship for the General Research Support Services (SEGAI) of the ULL in the service “Laboratory for the Production of Toxicological Patterns”. At the end of 2013, she obtained a contract from Torres Quevedo at INVOLCAN with the project entitled “Application and use of helium gas geochemistry in the soil atmosphere for geothermal exploration”, where she is currently part of the staff