Isabel Reche

Isabel Reche is a full professor at the University of Granada. She has worked on numerous scientific topics, such as the influence of Saharan dust deposition on Alpine and Mediterranean aquatic ecosystems. The role of Saharan dust as a vector for the global dispersal of microorganisms. She has also contributed to several scientific expeditions to Antarctica and to the most emblematic oceanographic expedition of recent decades, the Malaspina 2010 circumnavigation, to provide knowledge about the nature and function of dissolved organic matter and exopolymeric particles in the global carbon cycle. She is an expert in the spectroscopic properties of dissolved organic matter, the assembly/fragmentation dynamics of exopolymeric particles, and their fate in the deep ocean. More recently, her research has focused on the microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of wetlands and reservoirs, particularly the climate-forcing effects of greenhouse gas emissions on these ecosystems and their links to extreme weather events.

Isabel Reche teaches Population and Community Ecology and Ecosystem Ecology in the Biology degree programme at the University of Granada. Her postgraduate teaching covers Global Change and Microbial Biogeography (Master’s Degree in Biodiversity Conservation, Management and Restoration) and Creativity, Integrity and Communication in Science (Doctoral School of Science, Technology and Engineering).