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c.villacorta@upm.es

Graduate in Agro-Environmental Engineering, with a double master’s degree in Agricultural Engineering and Agricultural, Food, and Natural Resource Economics from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She has collaborated on the FAO’s “Pilot Program for Global Assessment of Tree Cover and Land Use Trends in Arid Areas,” worked in the IMIDRA soil laboratory, and served as secretary for the Fertiberia Chair of Agro-Environmental Studies. She has also worked for a year at CEIGRAM in collaboration with Cajamar, developing an observatory for the sustainability of the Spanish agri-food sector.

She completed her PhD at the Polytechnic University of Madrid thanks to a scholarship from the university’s own program. Her thesis was developed in the Department of Agricultural Economics, under the supervision of Irene Blanco and within the framework of the RECLAMO project. The research analyzed the use of unconventional water resources in agricultural irrigation. As part of her training, she spent three months at the University of Leeds, supervised by Paula Novo, and another six months at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the supervision of Alvar Escrivá-Bou. She has also participated in various international conferences (EWRA, AEEA, EGU, and AGU), where she has shared his research with the scientific community.

She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the European Interreg Sudoe project: SUDoe SUstainable Water Management (SudWaMa), whose main objective is to address the challenges of water consumption efficiency and water quality in institutional buildings.

  • Department:
    Agricultural Economics, Statistics and Business Management
  • Research Group:
  • School / Faculty:
    Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agraria, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas (ETSIAAB)
  • Agency:
    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Research areas:
    Economics, agricultural policy, water resources management, mitigation and adaptation to climate change.