Antonio Aguilar-Garrido is a researcher in soil and water pollution/remediation. He holds a degree in Environmental Sciences and a master’s degree in Conservation, Management and Restoration of Biodiversity, both from the University of Granada. In 2024, he obtained his PhD in Earth Sciences at the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of the University of Granada under the supervision of Professor F. J. Martín Peinado, for which he received the government FPU research grant. During his PhD he conducted a stay at the Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF) research centre of the Instituto Superior de Agronomía at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) under the supervision of Professor M. M. Abreu. His research focuses on the generation of Technosols from urban, agricultural, and mining wastes for the treatment of water and soils polluted by potentially harmful elements (PHEs) (e.g. As, Cu, Pb, and Zn). Furthermore, he has teaching experience in the degrees of Biology and Environmental Sciences (the physical environment, soil science, methods for the study of the natural environment, and soil evaluation, management, conservation, and recovery techniques), and has mentored some student projects. He is the first author of six articles, and co-author of five others, published in JCR-indexed journals. He is also author of six book chapters and has presented several posters and oral communications in conferences at national and international level.
