Sara Ros Cardoso

As a researcher and environmental consultant at ICATALIST, her role focuses on conducting remote sensing and photo interpretation studies related to agriculture and its water consumption, analysing sustainability indicators for projects, products and services, managing and presenting projects, planning and facilitating participatory processes, networking, and conducting other environmental studies and reports related to the circular economy, air quality, climate change mitigation and adaptation, nature-based solutions, and carbon footprint estimates. She is part of an interdisciplinary team involved in various national and international projects.

She collaborates as a volunteer in the organisation of the Climathon event in Seville since 2022, and, through ICATALIST as a participating partner, participates in the meetings of the Spanish Water Technology Platform (PTEA).

Sara finished her degree in Environmental Technologies Engineering at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes, Forestal y Medio Natural of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. At the same university he also completed a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales. Continuing his training, he has taken several courses, including a course on Radioactive Waste Management (ENRESA-UPM) and a course on Wastewater Treatment Plants: Operation and Exploitation (FACSA-UJI Chair). In addition, she has attended the Mission CitiES 2030 course of the Menéndez Pelayo University in 2022, online workshops of the Danish Embassy, EMASESA seminars, PTEA and Water Academies Workshop.

Prior to joining the company, she worked as a sustainability assistant trainee at the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), where she carried out risk analysis, scientific documentation analysis, comparative studies and field work.

She developed his Final Degree Project at the IGME, a project for the rehabilitation of an abandoned mining dam in Portmán (Murcia) using technosols, for which he was awarded an honours degree, and which is published in the UPM repository;