Teaching staff
LEIRE KORTAZAR OLIVER
- Knowledge area
- Department
- Analytical Chemistry
- Centre
- Faculty of Science and Technology
- Electronic mail
- leire.kortazar@ehu.eus
In 2012, after finishing the degree in chemistry I enrolled in the master’s degree in Environmental Contamination and Toxicology at the UPV/EHU. In 2014 I started my doctoral thesis work with the help of a grant awarded by the Basque Government. The 9th of March of 2018, I presented and defended my PhD entitled “Development and Implementation of New Analytical Methodologies for the Study of Acidification in Estuaries”. The thesis obtained a mark of Excellent with Cum Laude and International PhD mentions. The main objective of the thesis was to study and implement adequate ways to treat the potentiometric data for the exact determination of alkalinity in estuarine samples with variable salinities. While I was doing the thesis, I went to different research centres and universities to improve my knowledge on acidification and data treatment. I went to the National Oceanographic Centre de Southampton (United Kingdom), to the University of Messina (Italy) and to the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel (Germany). After the thesis I had a 1 year contract to work in different research projects and nowadays I am working with the postdoctoral grant given by the UPV/EHU with which I’m studying the mobility of heavy metals from polluted sediments to the water column and from there to the mussel shells under different acidification conditions.