{"id":62,"date":"2025-11-12T17:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:43:57","slug":"vanessa-monteiro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/vanessa-monteiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Gara Villalba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Full professor of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/692\/2025\/11\/gara-web-1-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/692\/2025\/11\/gara-web-1-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/692\/2025\/11\/gara-web-1-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/692\/2025\/11\/gara-web-1-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/692\/2025\/11\/gara-web-1-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gara Villalba is a full professor of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her bachelor\u2019s degree is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998), and her PhD from the University of Barcelona (2003), both in chemical engineering. Her research is dedicated to the study and optimization of resource metabolism from a systemic approach based on Industrial Ecology tools such as Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Analysis. Recent studies focus on analyzing and optimizing the food-energy-water nexus of urban systems. She was a Marie S. Curie fellow (2015-2018) at UC Merced School of Engineering, during which she led the project URBANCO2FLUX \u201cQuantifying the impact of the urban biosphere on the net flux of CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0from cities into the atmosphere.\u201d She was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator Integrated System Analysis of Urban Vegetation and Agriculture (2019-2024), and is a recipient of ICREA Academia 2021. She teaches in the undergraduate program of Chemical Engineering, as well as the Master\u2019s Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability (where she coordinates the specialty of Industrial Ecology), and the Master\u2019s Degree of Biological and Environmental engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6392-0902\">orcid<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full professor of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Gara Villalba is a full professor of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her bachelor\u2019s degree is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998), and her PhD from the University of Barcelona (2003), both in chemical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3145,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}