Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Aquatic Ecotoxicology (metals, PAHs, POPs)
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Environmental Risk Assessment
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Microplastics in the environment
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Environmental Education
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Damage Assessment in Coral Reefs
Profile
Professor Patricia Ramírez Romero has a degree in Hydrobiology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, a Master in Experimental Biology, UAM Iztapalapa Campus, and a Ph.D. in Zoology, Miami, University of Ohio, with PROMEP profile recognition since 2003.
She was the Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Energy and Environment from October 2015 to June 2018. She has collaborated on and coordinated several research and consulting projects addressing various topics related to Ecotoxicology, Environmental Risk Assessment, and Pollutant Monitoring, such as microplastics, heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other persistent organic pollutants.
She joined UAM Iztapalapa Campus as a Laboratory Assistant in 1988, and since then, she has participated as a collaborator and is responsible for various projects, which has allowed her to progress to her current position as Professor. It should be noted that since 2005 she has been developing projects funded by SEMARNAT.
Author and co-author of more than 100 research products in which she gives credit to UAM, as well as advisor of several terminal and thesis projects. She collaborated with Revista Hidrobiológica as a Member of the Editorial Committee from 2009 to 2019. She was founding President (2002-2006) of the Mesoamerican Association of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry (AMEQA AC) with whom she has organized national and international congresses and edited three special issues in Scientific Journals. As a member of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) Committee on Coral Reef Enforcement & Investigation he has trained more than 350 individuals internationally in the handling of forensic evidence in cases of damage to coral reef resources. She is a member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) since 1993 where she currently serves as part of the World Council and from whom she has received two recognitions (SETAC Fellow -2020 and Eugene Kenaga Award - 2012).
With more than 30 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level, she currently teaches at UAM Iztapalapa Campus various environmental topics. She was the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Energy and Environment at UAM Unidad Iztapalapa.
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