Estévez Danta, Andrea

Andrea Estévez Danta obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2024) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Xunta de Galicia postdoctoral support programme (ref. ED431C-2025/21) in the ChromChem research group.

Over the years, her work has specialised in the development and application of analytical methodologies to estimate human exposure to emerging contaminants (such as plasticisers), drugs of abuse, and related compounds through wastewater-based epidemiology, human biomonitoring, and in vitro human metabolism studies.

She is currently undertaking a two-year research stay at the University of Bath (UK), where she is acquiring expertise in the field of metaproteomics.

She has published 15 articles and three book chapters in leading scientific journals. She has also gained significant teaching and mentoring experience, having supervised and guided one undergraduate and one master’s student, delivered 210 hours of laboratory practical sessions and 19 hours of lectures at USC, and currently co-supervises two doctoral theses (one based at USC and the other at the University of Bath).