Fernando Alberquilla Martínez

Fernando Alberquilla Martínez

PhD Student

Faculty of Science & Technology

Fernando Alberquilla Martínez holds a Bachelor's degree in Geology from the University of Salamanca. In 2019, he completed a Master's degree in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Mineral Resources at the Complutense University of Madrid, and collaborated with the Institute of Geosciences (CSIC-UCM) with the aim of conducting a multi-analytical characterization of Lanzarote basalts as a prototype resource for lunar habitability. In 2020, he was hired in the Department of Physical Chemistry (UCM), specializing in High Pressures and Raman Spectroscopy. In 2023, he worked as a researcher at the School of Mines (University of Oviedo), in the Department of Metallogeny, focusing on the study of the distribution of contaminant elements (As and Hg) in former mining areas. Currently, he has been awarded an FPI (Predoctoral Research Fellowship) to carry out his doctoral thesis in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). This contract is associated with the knowledge generation project entitled: "Alteration processes of Mars and Moon meteorites and terrestrial analogs in different environments: Mars 2020, Rosalind Franklin, and Mars and Moon Return Samples" (PI: Juan Manuel Madariaga Mota).