Monica Rosell Linares

Senior lecturer

Scopus Author ID: 7003636155

Researcher ID: K-3651-2014

Knowledge area: Cristal.lografia i Mineralogia

Research group: Mineralogia Aplicada, Geoquímica i Hidrogeologia - MAGH

Contact Information
Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Applied Geology
MAiMA part del grup SGR Mineralogia Aplicada, Geoquímica i Geomicrobiologia, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona
934021343
monica.rosell(a)ub.edu

My profile

Currently associated professor in the MAiMA group at the faculty of Earth Sciences in the University of Barcelona (UB), Dr. Rosell has achieved an excellent interdisciplinary academic background during her 20 years of research experience. Starting from the base of her university studies in Environmental Sciences (she graduated in 2001 after the defence of a final project carried out in the prestigious Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC), going through the development of analytical methodologies and their application to the environmental monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during her PhD in the same group of the CSIC (2001-2006, European PhD obtained with Excellent Cum Laude in Chemistry by the UB), to the training in microbiology combined with the application of innovative isotopic and molecular tools to characterize and evaluate the in situ biodegradation of VOCs acquired during her pre- and post-doctoral stays (5 years in total) at the prominent and international center, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ in Leipzig, Germany. Since 2011, Dr. Rosell consolidates her professional career back in her home city and in the UB (thanks first to a Juan de la Cierva research contract and a Marie Curie integration grant, later a Ramón y Cajal contract), acquiring new knowledge in geology and hydrochemistry while teaching environmental mineralogy and chemistry, she supervises undergraduate (total of 9 final degree projects), master (4 theses) and PhD students (2 finished, 2 in progress) and gains experience in transfer of knowledge to companies on field remediation treatments (21 projects, in 7 of them as PI) and new applications of stable isotopes in food authentication (CDTI and ACCIÓ programs, 4 projects in total in all as PI). Her motivation, perseverance and collaborations at international level make her one of the references in compound specific-stable isotope analysis (CSIA) worldwide with an index h = 24 after a total of 43 articles in journals indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) of which 35 in the first quartile (more than 1200 total citations), 5 book chapters (2 in SCI), participation in 61 projects, 37 of which were competitive (13 regional, 9 national, 11 European among others) and 17 as PI. The dissemination of all these results has been mainly in 92 contributions to congresses in more than half, 48 as oral presentation, mostly at international level - info

Academic Training

Llicenciatura en Ciències Ambientals . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . 30/09/2001 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Vigilància ambiental de metil tert-butil èter (MTBE), un additiu de la gasolina, en aigües i sòls . Universitat de Barcelona . 15/09/2006 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Analytical chemistry

Isotope Biogeochemistry

Applied field remediation strategies

Food authentication

Projects

Desarrollo de herramientas de detección de fraudes en frutos secos españoles con alto riesgo de falsificación . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PID2020-117701RB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Stefania Vichi

Mineralogia Aplicada, Geoquímica i Hidrogeologia - MAGH . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.2021 SGR 00308 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Maria Nieves Otero Perez

Aprendre a Través de l'EMoció: Aprendre COmunicant a Ciències de la Terra . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.2022PID-UB/001 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Patricia Cabello Lopez

Aplicant els conceptes químics teòrics per entendre els grans processos que es donen al planeta Terra, als graus de Ciències del Mar i de Geologia . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.2022PMD-UB/018 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Cristina Domenech Orti

Avances en el uso de isotopos como trazadores del destino, impacto y remediación de contaminantes (ISOTRACE) . 2023 - 2027 . Ref.PID2022-139911OB-C41 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Maria Nieves Otero Perez; Albert Soler Gil

Journal Publications

Blazquez-Palli, Natalia; Rosell, Monica; Varias, Joan; Bosch, Marcal; Soler, Albert; Vicent, Teresa; Marco-Urrea, Ernest (2019). Integrative isotopic and molecular approach for the diagnosis and implementation of an efficient in-situ enhanced biological reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes. Water Research, 167 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0043-1354

Rodríguez-Fernández, D.; Torrentó, C.; Palau, J.; Marchesi, M.; Soler, A.; Hunkeler, D.; Domènech, C.; Rosell, M. (2018). Unravelling long-term source removal effects and chlorinated methanes natural attenuation processes by C and Cl stable isotopic patterns at a complex field site. Science of the Total Environment, 645, pp. 286 - 296 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0048-9697

Palau, J.; Shouakar-Stash, O.; Hatijah Mortan, S.; Yu, R.; Rosell, M.; Marco-Urrea, E.; Freedman, D.; Aravena, R.; Soler, A.; Hunkeler, D. (2017). Hydrogen isotope fractionation during biodegradation of 1,2-dichloroethane: potential for pathway identification using a multi-element (C, Cl and H) isotope approach. Environmental Science & Technology, 51(18), pp. 10526 - 10535 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0013-936X

Rosell, M.; Gonzalez-Olmos, R.; Rohwerder, Rusevova, K.; T., Georgi, A. Kopinke, F.D.; Richnow, H.H. (2012). Critical evaluation of the 2D-CSIA scheme for distinguishing fuel oxygenate degradation reaction mechanisms. Environmental Science & Technology, 46(9), pp. 4757 - 4766 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0013-936X

Jechalke, S.; Rosell, M.; Martinez-Lavanchy, P. M.; Pérez-Leiva, P.; Rohwerder, T.; Vogt, C.; Richnow, H.H. (2011). Linking low stable isotope fractionation to expression of the cytochrome P450 monooxygenase encoding ethB gene for proving MTBE biodegradation in aerated treatment pond systems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77(3), pp. 1086 - 1096 . https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01698-10 . ISSN: 0099-2240

Rosell, M.; Lacorte, S.; Barcelo, D. (2006). Analysis, occurrence and fate of MTBE in the aquatic environment over the last decade. Trac-Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 25(10), pp. 1016 - 1029 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2006.06.011 . ISSN: 0165-9936

Palau, J.; Trueba-Santiso, A.; Yu, R.; Mortan, S.H.; Shouakar-Stash, O.; Freedman, D.L.; Wasmund, K.; Hunkeler, D.; Marco-Urrea, E.; Rosell, M. (2023). Dual C-Br isotope fractionation indicates distinct reductive dehalogenation mechanisms of 1,2-dibromoethane in Dehalococcoides- and Dehalogenimonas-containing cultures. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(5), pp. 1949 - 1958 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0013-936X

Plasencia Sánchez, E.; Sánchez-Soberón, F.; Rovira, J.; Sierra, J.; Schuhmacher, M.; Soler, A.; Torrentó, C.; Rosell, M. (2023). Integrating dual C and N isotopic approach to elemental and mathematical solutions for improving the PM source apportionment in complex urban and industrial cities: Case of Tarragona - Spain. Atmospheric Environment, 293(119449) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1352-2310

Gil-Villalba, S.; Palau, J.; Soder-Walz, J.M.; Vallecillo, M.A.; Corregidor, J.; Tirado, A.; Shouakar-Stash, O.; Guivernau, M.; Viñas, M.; Soler, A.; Rosell, M. (2024). Use of isotopic (C, Cl) and molecular biology tools to assess biodegradation in a source area of chlorinated ethenes after biostimulation with Emulsified Vegetable Oil (EVO). Science of the Total Environment, 951 . ISSN: 0048-9697

Pinel-Cabello, M.; Wasmund, K.; Soder-Walz, J.M.; Vega, M.; Rosell, M.; Marco-Urrea, E. (2024). Divergent dual C-H isotopic fractionation pattern during anaerobic biodegradation of toluene within Aromatoleum species under nitrate-reducing conditions. Environmental Pollution, 361 . ISSN: 0269-7491

Others Publications

Audí-Miró, C.; Torrentó, C.; Rosell, M.; Otero, N.; Palau, J.; Marchesi, M.; Soler, A. (2016). Anàlisi isotòpica de compostos específics per a controlar l'atenuació induïda en aigües subterrànies contaminades per fonts puntuals . In Geoquímica ambiental de Catalunya: recull d'articles, col·lecció Monografies tècniques - 5 . (pp. 187 - 196) . Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya . ISBN: 9788439394716 . http://www.icgc.cat/ca/Ciutada/Descarrega/Llibres/Llibres-tecnics

Marchesi, M.; Palau, J.; Torrentó, C.; Audí-Miró, C.; Rosell, M.; Otero, N.; Soler, A.; Aravena, R. (2015). Assessing remediation strategies in a complex fractured bedrock aquifer polluted by chlorinated volatile organic compounds at a former production site in Catalonia, Spain . In Remediated sites and brownfields. Success stories in Europe . (pp. 98 - 103) . Joint Research Centre. European Commission. . ISBN: 978-92-79-52796-8 . http://publications.europe.eu/howto/index_en.htm

Rosell, M.; Häggblom, M. M.; Richnow, H. H. (2007). Compound specific isotope analysis (CSIA) to characterise degradation pathways and to quantify in situ degradation of fuel oxygenates and other fuel derived contaminants . In Fuel Oxygenates, Series The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry . Volume. 5 . (pp. 99 - 119) . Springer Verlag . ISBN: 978-3-540-72640-1 .

Rosell, M.; Lacorte, S.; Barcelo, D. (2007). Occurrence and fate of MTBE in the aquatic environment over the last decade . In Fuel Oxygenates, Series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry . Volume. 5 . (pp. 31 - 55) . Springer Verlag . ISBN: 978-3-540-72640-1 .

Rosell, M.; Lacorte, S.; Barcelo, D. (2003). Contaminación de acuíferos por gasolina . In Revista Investigación y Ciencia . Volume. 323 . (pp. 6 - 12) . Prensa Científica .

Relevant Activities

Best poster prize AquaConSoil 2019 for Blázquez-Pallí, N.; Shouakar-Stash, O.; Palau, J.; Trueba-Santiso, A.; Varias, J.; Bosch, M.; Soler, A.; Vicent, T.; Marco-Urrea, M.; Rosell, M. 'Dual C-Cl isotopic assessment to elucidate origin, fate, and potential bioremediation treatment of chlorinated methanes at two industrial multi-contaminated aquifers' from

Premi extraordinari de Doctorat de la Facultat de Ciències de la Terra (2017-2018) per la tesi de la doctoranda Diana Rodríguez-Fernández 'Stable isotopes analysis to assess abiotic and biotic remediation of groundwater polluted by chlorinated methanes'

Accredited as senior lecturer by The Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya)(in Catalan: Sol·licitud d'acreditació de recerca (professorat agregat))