Contact details

Dr. Nagore González Soto
Consolidated Research Group “Cell Biology in Environmental Toxicology + One Health (CBET+)”
Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology
Plentzia Marine Station PiE-EHU,
Areatza z/g, E-48620 Plentzia, Basque Country (Spain)

Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology
Faculty of Science and Technology
University of the Basque Country (EHU)
Sarriena Auzoa z/g, E-48940 Leioa, Basque Country (Spain)

Web of Science Researcher ID: GBH-1795-2022
ORCID code: 0000-0003-2711-6743
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nagore-Gonzalez-Soto
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nagore-gonzalez-soto-1b73a412a/
Bluesky: @nagoregsoto.bsky.social
Research Group: https://www.ehu.eus/web/cellbiologyinenvironmentaltoxicology
Plentzia Marine Station PiE-EHU: https://www.ehu.es/PIE

Short biography

Nagore González Soto (postdoc, Basque Government Grant), BSc in Biology (2016), PhD in Environmental Pollution and Toxicology from the EHU (2022). Her research focused in the toxicity of emerging particulate pollutants in combination with classic pollutants in the marine environment. Since 2022, she has been focused on the toxicity of environmentally relevant micro- and nanoplastics, particularly in the Bay of Biscay. She has been a member of “Cell Biology in Environmental Toxicology” and Marine Station of Plentzia PiE since 2018. From February 2023 to March 2025, she was at the University of Bordeaux expanding her knowledge of the identification of plastic polymers in samples collected from the marine environment and methodologies for their fragmentation into micro- and nanoplastics and texting them in fish cell lines and embryos. Currently, she is at the Plentzia Marine Station (PiE-EHU) testing the toxicity of these microplastic cocktails produced with plastics collected from the beaches of the southeastern Bay of Biscay in a battery of microalgae and invertebrates at different trophic levels within the FIERA project of the Spanish Ministry. Currently she is part of projects FIERA, MIKRONANORISK, PLASFITO, FluoBioplast, ENSURE2, the AquEus LTC Laboratory for Transborder Cooperation and the ENLIGHT thematic network PLASTIMPACT.

List of selected ongoing projects

• “Fate and Impact of Environmentally ReAlistic nanoplastics and of novel bioplastics in the aquatic environment (FIERA)”.
  MCIU, Proyectos de Investigación orientada de la convocatoria 2021, en el marco del Programa Estatal para Impulsar la Investigación Científico-Técnica y su Transferencia, del Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023. Referencia: PID2021-128600OB-I00.
  Duration: 01-01-2022/31-12-2026

• “Towards a joint Aquitania-Euskadi research and higher education alliance to tackle potential risks posed by environmental and bio-based microplastics and nanoplastics in the Gulf of Biscay (LTC AquEus)”.
  Laboratorio Transfronterizo de Cooperación LTC, Euskampus Fundazioa y LTC Sarea del Gobierno Vasco. Referencia: AquEus.
  Duration: 01-01-2024/31-12-2027

• “Risk assessment of environmental micro and nanoplastics for human consumption (MIKRONANORISK)”.
  Proyectos de Investigación Focalizada en Agricultura, pesca y alimentación, ELIKA, Gobierno Vasco. Referencia: PA24/04.
  Duration: 01-01-2025/31-12-2027

• “Fate and Impact of Plastics - from Macro to Nano - on Planetary Health (PLASTIMPACT)”.
  ENLIGHT Thematic Network ETN, European University Alliance, European Commission´s Education and Audiovisual Executive Agency. Referencia: INT-ERASMUS+23/07.
  Duration: 01-11-2024/31-10-2027