Mexico City

Claudia A. Ponce de León Hill, Ph.D., Full Time Associate Professor “C”, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, UNAM; Interest in metals: Being in an Environmental Laboratory, metals are an important part of an environment diagnostic. We determine metals in water, soil, sediment, air particles and biological samples and the possible relationship of the contaminant concentrations in the ecological cycle. We are interested in starting to do speciation of metals in some of these matrices.

email: claudiapdl@att.net.mx

Silke Cram Heydrich, Ph.D., Full Time Researcher “A”,Instituto de Geografia, UNAM; Interest in metals: Metal contamination in soil and sediments is widespread and their mobility and availability becomes of great importance. Our research centers in this area.

email: silre@servidor.unam.mx

Liliana Saldivar y Osorio, Dr. R. Nat., Full Time Professor “C, Facultad de Quimica, UNAM; Interest in metals: Metals can be of detrimental to human health, therefore our research is focusing in the study of trace metals, specifically, vanadium in rats.

email: liliana.saldivar@gmail.com

Felipe Vasquez Gutierrez, Ph.D., Full Time Researcher “A”, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, UNAM; Interest in metals: Our research involves Marine Physicochemistry and Environmental Quality. Our interest in metals is the mobility and concentration determination in marine environment including sediments, organisms and water.

email: felipe@mar.icmyl.unam.mx

Cecilia Vanegas Perez, Ph.D., Full Time Professor “A”, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM; In aquatic environments, the toxicity of metals is of great concern when doing environmental risk assessment. Our interest in metals is the causal relationship between metal concentrations in water, sediments and organisms and the biological adverse effects.

email: rsvp@hp.fciencias.unam.mx

Cristina Siebe Grabach, Ph.D., Full Time Researcher “B”, Instituto de Geologia, UNAM; Interest in metals: We are soil scientists and our interest in metals is as soil contaminants, particularly their mobility, toxicity toward biota and their distribution in the soils.

email: siebe@servidor.unam.mx