nireEHU NESTOR ETXEBARRIA LOIZATE
- Knowledge area
- Analytical Chemistry
- Department
- Analytical Chemistry
- Centre
- Faculty of Science and Technology
- Electronic mail
- nestor.etxebarria@ehu.eus
Nestor Etxebarria Loizate, PhD in chemical sciences (1993), and since 2011 Professor at the Dept of Analytical Chemistry of the UPV/EHU. Currently I am member of the IBeA Research Group (www.ehu.eus/Ibea), a high-performance research group including 16 PhD staff members and more than 20 researchers, and one of the main groups supporting the Plentzia Marine Station (PiE).
The research activities started during the PhD and were focused on solution equilibria studies. Later, during my postdoc stage at the JRC-IRMM (Geel, Be) I worked with the implementation of instrumental neutron activation analysis for the quality control of the production of reference materials. Once back at the UPV/EHU, I focused the research activities on the analysis of organic microcontaminants and ecotoxicology.
In the last five years, we are leading a research group in the development of nontarget analytical methods and the application in environmental and ecotoxicological issues. In this sense, we have coordinated three research projects from the Spanish Ministry addressing these methods in metabolomics and exposomics and taking part in many collaborative and interdisciplinary projects.
Since the opening of the PiE in 2014, our activities are getting focused in marine environmental issues in joint research projects. Our group collaborates with several research groups of the Basque Country, Spain and Europe, especially those carried out in the frameworks of the European Norman network and the EMBRC