María Vázquez

Textile and Paper Technology

Produccion of TL-DOS radiation detectors under GMPs

Internship at the Fraunhofer UMSICHT to perform my Master Thesis. Topic: Assessment of a low-temperature regeneration process of activated carbons for the elimination of micropollutants. Tasks: -Construction of a bench-scale experimental plant of activated carbon -Performance of on column and batch adsorption experiments -Regeneration of exhausted activated carbon in the rotary kiln -Analysis of adsorption equilibrium data -Writing of a 90-pages Master Thesis

Internship at the Technical Water Engineering department of the Duisburg-Essen University. Topic: Optimization of a powdered activated carbon pilot plant for on site quality assessment of activated carbons. Tasks: -Colaboration in the construction of a small-scale filter test of activated carbon -Performance of batch and on column adsoption experiments with different commercial activated carbons -Assessment of breakthrough curves and adsorption equilibrium data -Writing of a 15-pages scientific report

Internship at the Instrumental Analytical Chemistry (IAC) department of the Duisburg-Essen University. Topic: Validation of a SPME GC-IRMS method for the analysis of aromatic hydrocarbons in groundwater. Tasks: -Standard PAHs sample preparation -Operation of the GC-IRMS under supervision -Chromatogram analysis by specialized Software -Determination of LODs and repeatability for method validation -Writing of a 20-pages scientific report

Internship at the Ecology Department of the León University (Spain) to accomplish my Bachelor Thesis. Topic: Characterization of proteobacterial communities in activated sludge by FISH. Tasks: -Performance of the Fluorescence In Situ Hibridization technique. Sample analysis by epifluorescence -Development of a computational analysis method of FISH images -Statistical assessment of the effect of WWTP design variables on the sludge microbial communities -Writing of a 30-pages Bachelor Thesis

Internship at the Pathological-Anatomy Laboratory (Santos Reyes Hospital, Spain). Tasks: -Specimen processing and staining (Hystology and cytology) -Specimen analysis by light and contrast microscopy -Approach to diagnosis under supervision -Writing of a 15-pages practical report

Environmental Microbiology and Hygiene Environmental Pollution Applied Analytical Chemistry Technical Water and Wastewater Treatment Membrane Technologies Stable Isotopes Analysis

Molecular Biology Cellular Biology Genetics/Genomics Microbiology Plant Biotechnology Genetic Engineering Environmental Biotechnology Bioinformatics