NEWS
Our course on Sustainable Development Goals in the framework of a Circular economy, kicked off today
This morning at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Santiago de Compostela, the course 'An environmental approach to the objectives of sustainable development in the framework of the circular economy', organised by CRETUS under the coordination of professors...
Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering achieves for the sixth time the 1st position in El Mundo’s Master’s Degree Ranking.
As every year, El Mundo journal publishes the ranking of the best master's degrees 2021/2022, where it gathers 250 master's degree programmes from different universities and business schools in 50 specialities. The Master in Environmental Engineering of the University...
Summer scholarships for research initiation
CRETUS launches for the first time a call for Summer Scholarships targeted to master students who want to start a research career in one of the areas of the CRETUS research agenda. A total of 8 scholarships with a duration of 3 months (from September to November 2021)...
A feasibility study for air quality measurement using radio frequency antennas
Los investigadores Aarón A. Salas , J. Antonio Rodríguez y Francisco J. Ares del departamento de Física Aplicada de la USC junto con Mª Elena López del de Ciencias Morfológicas acaban de publicar este reciente estudio sobre la...
On-demand technosols and reactive wetlands to recover hyperacid soils, water and ecosystems of uranium mine in Salamanca. TEKURA Project
A través del proyecto TEKURA, financiado por el CDTI, de enero 2018 a junio del 2020, con la participación de ENUSA, CIEMAT, ENGRISA y con investigadores de CRETUS por parte de la USC, ha sido posible la recuperación del hueco minero de la mina de uranio de Saelices...
Carmen García Jares and María Llompart Vizoso obtain the professorship on Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations!
The University of Santiago de Compostela and CRETUS have two new professors. Carmen García Jares, who coordinates the CRETUS Talent Committee and the research group "Laboratory for Research and Development of Analytical Solutions" (LIDSA), and María Llompart Vizoso,...
CRETUS researchers identify where resides the highest concentration of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater treatment plants
Los primeros resultados de la investigación que están llevando a cabo conjuntamente el Prof. Juan M. Lema y los investigadores Sabela Balboa y Miguel Mauricio de CRETUS (por parte de la USC), Viaqua y el Servicio de Microbiología y Parasitología del Complejo...
A strong health system and a reinforcement of the scientific fabric are key to face possible future threats.
Foto:EFE/Lavandeira jr Jesús López Romalde, catedrático de Microbiología del Instituto CRETUS de la Universidad de Santiago (USC), considera que esta pandemia ha dejado un claro mensaje sobre la importancia de mantener un sistema sanitario fuerte así como el...
Assessing the risk of transferring heavy metals to crops in the agricultural reuse of municipal waste compost
Cretus researchers from the department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Mª Teresa Barral and Remigio Paradelo, have recently published an study on the transfer of heavy metal to crops for human and animal consumption from compost of organic fraction of...
