MIREN PILARE CAJARAVILLE BERECIARTUA

Knowledge area

Cellular Biology

Department

Zoology and Animal Cell Biology

Centre

Faculty of Science and Technology

Electronic mail

mirenp.cajaraville@ehu.eus

Miren P. Cajaraville is Professor of Cell Biology since 2002 and has more than 30 years experience in Environmental Toxicology. Her research focuses on development and application of cellular and molecular biomarkers of pollution and AOPs in aquatic sentinel and model organisms to understand mechanisms of action of pollutants (particularly oil hydrocarbons, endocrine disruptors, nanomaterials and micro and nanoplastics) and also on the use of alternative in vitro and in vivo approaches for environmental and human risk assessment. Particularly interested in omics and histopathological responses. Director of consolidated research group “Cell Biology in Environmental Toxicology” 2001-2021 and head of the research line Toxicology of nanomaterials, micro and nanoplastics and other emerging pollutants. Founding member of the Marine Station of Plentzia PiE (2012). Expert for the EC JRC CAS project on nanoplastics. Currently PI of projects MIKRONANOPLAS, PLASFITO, FIERA and the AquEus LTC Laboratory for Transborder Cooperation. Coordinator of PhD programme in Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ECT since 2012 and lecturer at Erasmus Mundus masters ECT+; MER+ and IMBRSea. Has supervised 17 Licenciature Thesis, 4 End of Degree Projects, 22 Master Thesis and 17 PhD Thesis of which 13 were European or International Thesis. Basque Government and Ikerbasque Advanced Award (2021). According to WoS (January 2024) has 203 publications, cited 7.751 times; mean cites per publ

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