Xavier Querol

Xavier Querol Carceller (Morella, Spain, 1963), research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA) from CSIC, works on environmental geochemistry applied to air pollution. PhD on Geology by the University of Barcelona, he did the postdoc at BGS‐NERC, UK, and later on joined the Institute of Earth Sciences at the CSIC, and in 2008 the IDAEA. He has led numerous research projects, coauthored around 650 articles WoS scientific journals, and supervised 28 PhD students. Member of working groups assessing Clean Air for Europe, member of

WHO‐SAC of REVIHAAP and HRAPIE, Scientific Bureau of EMEP‐UNECE, assessing on air quality to the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and several cities and regions of Spain. Environment Award of the Generalitat de Catalunya 2009. King Jaume I Award 2013 for the Protection of the Environment. National Research Award on Natural Resources in 2020, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona since 2019. In the lists of Thomson Reuters ‐Clarivate

of the most cited researchers since 2014.