Pedro A. Hernández

Pedro A. Hernández, Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Bachelor in Chemistry at the University of La Laguna, specializing in geochemistry, has more than 28 years of professional experience in geochemistry. Postdoctoral researcher of the European Union (Scientific and Technological Felowship Program; STF) between 1997 and 1998 and of the Japanese Government (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; JSPS) between 1999 and 2000 in the Laboratory of Earthquake Chemistry at The University of Tokyo (Japan). Since 2001, is a scientific member of the Environment Division of the Technological and Renewable Energy Institute (ITER), and was director of the Volcanic Surveillance Division of the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN) between 2010 and 2017. Specialist in fluid geochemistry of natural systems, he has authored more than 85 scientific publications in international journals of the “Citation Index”, one of them in the prestigious journal SCIENCE as first author and more than 200 scientific papers presented at national and international congresses. He has directed 6 doctoral theses, 5 Bachelor theses and 8 Diplomas of Advanced Studies and is member of several national and international scientific associations.