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Cristina Postigo

Cristina Postigo

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
49
Citations
9019
World Ranking
5239
National Ranking
137

Overview

Cristina Postigo is affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain and specializes in Environmental Science, focusing particularly on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Their research encompasses several main topics including Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Water Treatment and Disinfection, Analytical Chemistry Methods Development, Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact, and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology.

Postigo's publication record includes papers in various respected journals. Recent notable publications include:

  • "The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry," 2022, Environmental Sciences Europe
  • "Evaluation of the occurrence and fate of pesticides in a typical Mediterranean delta ecosystem (Ebro River Delta) and risk assessment for aquatic organisms," 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • "What's in the water? - Target and suspect screening of contaminants of emerging concern in raw water and drinking water from Europe and Asia," 2021, Water Research
  • "Microalgae-based bioremediation of water contaminated by pesticides in peri-urban agricultural areas," 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • "Fungal degradation of selected medium to highly polar pesticides by Trametes versicolor: kinetics, biodegradation pathways, and ecotoxicity of treated waters," 2021, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Frequently collaborated co-authors include Miren López de Alda, Ester López-García, Lubertus Bijlsma, Félix Hernández, and Maria Vittoria Barbieri.

The venues in which Postigo has published most frequently are:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Environmental Pollution
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))

Best Publications

  • Drinking Water Disinfection By-products

    Susan D. Richardson;Cristina Postigo

  • Illicit drug consumption estimations derived from wastewater analysis: a critical review.

    Alexander L N van Nuijs;Sara Castiglioni;Isabela Tarcomnicu;Cristina Postigo

  • Drugs of abuse and their metabolites in the Ebro River basin: occurrence in sewage and surface water, sewage treatment plants removal efficiency, and collective drug usage estimation.

    Cristina Postigo;María José López de Alda;Damià Barceló;Damià Barceló

  • Evaluation of drugs of abuse use and trends in a prison through wastewater analysis.

    Cristina Postigo;Miren López de Alda;Damià Barceló;Damià Barceló

  • Study of pharmaceuticals in surface and wastewater from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico: Occurrence and environmental risk assessment

    José Abraham Rivera-Jaimes;Cristina Postigo;Rosa María Melgoza-Alemán;Jaume Aceña

  • Fully automated determination in the low nanogram per liter level of different classes of drugs of abuse in sewage water by on-line solid-phase extraction-liquid chromatography-electrospray-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Cristina Postigo;Maria J. Lopez De Alda;Darnia Barcelo

  • Recent trends in the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of organic contaminants in environmental samples.

    Mira Petrovic;Marinella Farré;Miren Lopez de Alda;Sandra Perez

  • Transformation of pharmaceuticals during oxidation/disinfection processes in drinking water treatment.

    Cristina Postigo;Susan D. Richardson

  • Synthetic organic compounds and their transformation products in groundwater: occurrence, fate and mitigation.

    Cristina Postigo;Damià Barceló

  • Analysis of selected emerging contaminants in sewage sludge

    M.S. Díaz-Cruz;M.J. García-Galán;P. Guerra;A. Jelic

  • Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

    Iria González-Mariño;Iria González-Mariño;Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba;Nikiforos A. Alygizakis;Maria Jesús Andrés-Costa

  • Occurrence and Comparative Toxicity of Haloacetaldehyde Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water.

    Clara H. Jeong;Cristina Postigo;Susan D. Richardson;Jane Ellen Simmons

  • Fate and removal of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in conventional and membrane bioreactor wastewater treatment plants and by riverbank filtration.

    Mira Petrovic;Mira Petrovic;Maria Jose Lopez de Alda;Silvia Diaz-Cruz;Cristina Postigo

  • Primary and complex stressors in polluted mediterranean rivers: Pesticide effects on biological communities

    Marta Ricart;Marta Ricart;Helena Guasch;Damià Barceló;Damià Barceló;Rikke Brix

  • The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry

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  • Analysis of drugs of abuse and their human metabolites in water by LC-MS2: A non-intrusive tool for drug abuse estimation at the community level

    Cristina Postigo;Maria J. Lopez de Alda;Damià Barceló;Damià Barceló

  • Analysis of 52 pesticides in fresh fish muscle by QuEChERS extraction followed by LC-MS/MS determination.

    Maria Vittoria Barbieri;Cristina Postigo;Cristina Postigo;Nuria Guillem-Argiles;Luis Simon Monllor-Alcaraz

  • Removal of estrogens through water disinfection processes and formation of by-products.

    Renata Oliveira Pereira;Cristina Postigo;Miren López de Alda;Luiz Antonio Daniel

  • Analysis and occurrence of selected medium to highly polar pesticides in groundwater of Catalonia (NE Spain): An approach based on on-line solid phase extraction–liquid chromatography–electrospray-tandem mass spectrometry detection

    Cristina Postigo;Maria José López de Alda;Damià Barceló;Damià Barceló;Antoni Ginebreda

  • Five-year monitoring of 19 illicit and legal substances of abuse at the inlet of a wastewater treatment plant in Barcelona (NE Spain) and estimation of drug consumption patterns and trends.

    Nicola Mastroianni;Ester López-García;Cristina Postigo;Damià Barceló

  • Drugs of abuse in surface and tap waters of the Tagus River basin: Heterogeneous photo-Fenton process is effective in their degradation

    Y. Valcárcel;F. Martínez;S. González-Alonso;Y. Segura

Frequent Co-Authors

Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Miren López de Alda
Miren López de Alda Spanish National Research Council
Rosario Rodil
Rosario Rodil University of Santiago de Compostela
Yolanda Picó
Yolanda Picó University of Valencia
Susan D. Richardson
Susan D. Richardson University of South Carolina
Mira Petrovic
Mira Petrovic Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Félix Hernández
Félix Hernández Jaume I University
José Benito Quintana
José Benito Quintana University of Santiago de Compostela
Rosa Maria Marcé
Rosa Maria Marcé Rovira i Virgili University
Lubertus Bijlsma
Lubertus Bijlsma Jaume I University

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