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María Carolina Parodi Dávila, current Director of Technology Transfer at UTEM and researcher at the Soil and Environment Laboratory of the Department of Industry, Faculty of Engineering.
She is a chemical civil engineer, with a degree in engineering sciences and a master's degree in environment with a specialty in industrial waste treatment.
She has held positions as Director of the Department of Industry of the Faculty of Engineering and as Head of the Industrial Civil Engineering major in Agroindustry. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and directing interdisciplinary projects and in the last 6 years he has been dedicated to applied research on soils, in order to solve problems of contamination of mining and tailings soils and their impact on the health of the population. She is a specialist in environmental risk assessment and people's health due to exposure to soils contaminated by heavy metals and metalloids and predictive modeling of contaminants in soils and tailings. Bioaccessibility expert
As Principal Director, she has directed outstanding applied research projects with external financing such as Innova Corfo with mining companies and Fondef IDeA, financed by ANID as Fondef ID18I10189 during the years 2018 to 2021, obtaining as main result the presentation of the invention patent application. by PCT/CL2020/050198 to the National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) Chile.
The patent was granted in Chile in April 2024 by INAPI.
In 2022, it awarded the first Fondef for institutional technological research, FONDEF IT21I0043 "Validation and technological scaling of the MABIOMET mobile device for mining soils", with financing from ANID and important companies in the mining ecosystem such as SONAMI, RoboticsLab and MSTECK.
She is currently a panelist in the mining area in the Subdirectorate of Applied Research of ANID