Elena H. del Amo

I always felt commitment with the natural environment and I knew I wanted to work on something related to it. I chose biology as my career, and I end up in the world of Microbial Ecology. I worked in gEMM (Group of Molecular Microbial Ecology), at University of Girona, on my doctoral thesis on approaches to the nitrogen cycle in aquatic systems, more specifically about dissimilatory nitrite reduction processes. Nowadays, I'm a postdoc in Environmental Microbiology group from UAB, where we work in mercury detoxification. Moreover, I'm working as assistant professor in different universities, teaching microbiology to future biologists, microbiologists, biotechnologists and even dieticians. In my spare time I like to travel and enjoy nature, go out and share time with friends, as well as take care of my lovely vegetable garden. Furthermore, I cooperate as an environmental volunteer in a local ecologist association, where we do small researches on the evolution and status of flora and fauna.