International experience
My international experience is based on long stages in Italy, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to this, I have visited many other institutions around the world for short periods.
Lincoln University
February 2016 – August 2016
Lincoln (Canterbury), New Zealand
Thanks to the Salvador de Madariaga Program (the Program for Spanish Professors and Researchers in foreign higher Education and Research Centers), I researched several biotechnologies for the reuse of contaminated biosolids to obtain agricultural, environmental and social benefits.

University of Melbourne
September 2007 – August 2008
Melbourne, Australia
Thanks to the Salvador de Madariaga Program (the Program for Spanish Professors and Researchers in foreign higher Education and Research Centers), I studied how the combination of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and biosolids could be a suitable technology for the restoration of soils contaminated with trace elements.

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
December 1998 – March 1999
Rome, Italy
I was involved in a project of composting of olive wastes as a post-doctoral student.

Wye College, University of London Wye
January 1998 – October 1998
Wye (Kent), United Kingdom
As a post-doctoral student I was in charge of studying the effect of temperature on microbial development in compost and optimizing the process.

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
October 1996 – December 1997
Rome, Italy
I studied the humic fraction of organic residues and composts as a post-doctoral student.
