Dr Paula María Carmona Quiroga holds the position of Research Associate. PhD in Geology (2010, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and MSc in General and Applied Hydrology (2003, CEDEX, Spain). Marie Curie fellow and principal investigator of the “Cleaning Heritage” project (FP7, grant agreement 622417) at the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford (2014-2016). Principal investigator of a National Plan project for young researchers (BIA2015-73237-JIN; 2017-2020).
She specializes in i) the used of novel protective treatments (anti-graffiti; self-cleaning; consolidant, water-repellent, etc.) and design repair mortars for the preservation of built heritage and in ii) the development of more durable cements to sulfate attack.
In her 15 years of research experience she has participated in 8 European, national and regional research projects and in 6 research contracts. She has supervised 1 Doctoral Thesis at Complutense University of Madrid, 1 Master´s thesis at the University of Alicante and has been teaching at the Postgraduate course “Chemistry of cement” for the 10 last years. She has more than 30 publications (mostly SCI papers) (ORCID CODE: 0000-0002-9583-7131; RESEARCHER ID: M-4701-2015) and 22 contributions to international congresses. She has collaborated with more than 30 international institutions and national research groups (EMPA (Switzerland); Chalmers University of Technology (Sweeden); Kongju National University (South Korea); Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM); Facultad de Bellas Artes (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); Universidad de Cádiz; Universidad de Vigo; etc.).
She has had direct entailment with the protection of Built Heritage (Torre del Oro and UNESCO world heritage Alcázar in Seville; Las Huelgas Reales Monastery in Burgos; etc.) and is member of both Heritage networks, TechnoHeritage and PTI-PAIS.