Speaker profile
Juan F. Mujica
Juan received his degree in biology with specialization in Environment and Natural Resources from The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. During this programme he worked in Ecology studies in the CASEB (Centre for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity) and in Microbiology and Ecotoxicology in the Microbial Ecology and Environmental Toxicology lab. Juan completed his degree with modules in the University of Nottingham. After this he moved to environmental consultancy, participating in baselines projects and environmental management programmes in Chile, as a limnologic specialist and Field and Project Manager.
He is PH.D. candidate in the Groundwater Protection and Restoration Group (GPRG) at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on understanding the environmental controls on microbial dynamics that occur across chemical interfaces between clean and polluted groundwater. Such interfaces exist naturally at the boundary (or “fringe”) of contaminant plumes and are created artificially in heterogeneous aquifers by engineered remediation approaches such as groundwater pump and treatment, which induce mixing between groundwater with different chemistry.