Jaime Villaverde Capellan

– Bioremediation of contaminated soils by pesticides and other emerging contaminants employing chemical (synthetic surfactants, biosurfactants, cyclodextrins, etc.), biological (bioestimulation and bioaugmentation by pollutant specific degrading microorganisms, specific degrading consortia, etc.) and biotechnological (qualitative and quantitative analysis by molecular studies of specific pollutant degradation genes that encode the enzymes involved in the contaminant biodegradation pathway) techniques.

– Fate and behaviour of emerging contaminants in the environment.

– Use of cyclodextrins in the environment for enhancing pollutant bioavailabity/bioremediation.

– Desarrollo de nuevos materiales filtrantes con propiedades antimricobianas y antivíricas para tratamientos de aguas. Junta de Andalucía. Investigador principal: Tomás Undabeytia López. (2020-2023). 108.292 €.

– Uso de métodos químicos y biológicos para la reducción de contaminantes orgánicos en biosólidos. Implicaciones de su aplicación como fertilizantes en suelos agrícolas. Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad. Investigadores principales: Esmeralda Morillo y Jaime Villaverde. (2018-2021). 261.000 €.

– KETs para la eliminación de contaminantes emergentes en aguas regeneradas en el espacio SUDOE. European Union. 2016 – 2019. 345.000 €.

– EuropeAid: Promoting multidisciplinary EU-China collaborations in science and business to address food security, water and environmental stress. European Union. 2015 – 2018. 50.000 €.

– Compuestos biodegradables para la descontaminación de suelos. Efecto de diferentes co-contaminantes. MINECO. 2014 – 2017. 142.000 €.

– Evaluación de la toxicidad de residuos envejecidos de plaguicidas en suelos contaminados. Junta de Andalucía. 2014 – 2017. 116.000 €.

– Nuevas tecnologías en procesos de tratamientos de aguas mediante el uso de composites basados en minerales de arcilla modificados. MINECO. 2014 – 2017. 165.000 €.

– Diffusion of nanotechnology based devices for water treatment and recycling. European Union (ENPI). 2012 – 2015. 165.000 €.

Lara-Moreno, A, Morillo, E., Merchán, F, Villaverde, J. A comprehensive feasibility study of effectiveness and environmental impact of PAH bioremediation using an indigenous microbial degrader consortium and a novel strain Stenotrophomonas maltophilia CPHE1 isolated from an industrial polluted soil. Journal of Environmental Management 289, 112512 (2021).

Morillo, F. Madrid, A. Lara-Moreno, J. Villaverde. Soil bioremediation by cyclodextrins. A review. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 591, Article 119943 (2020).

F. Madrid, R. Ballesteros, S. Lacorte, J. Villaverde, E. Morillo. Extraction of PAHs from an aged creosote-polluted soil by cyclodextrins and rhamnolipids. Side effects on removal and availability of potentially toxic elements. Science of the Total Environment 653: 384-392 (2019).

F. Madrid, M. Rubio-Bellido, J. Villaverde, A. Peña, E. Morillo. Natural and assisted dissipation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a long-term co-contaminated soil with creosote and potentially toxic elements. Science of the Total Environment 660: 705-714 (2019).

J. Villaverde, L. Láiz, A. Lara-Moreno, J.L. González-Pimentel, E. Morillo, Bioaugmentation of PAH-contaminated soils with novel specific degrader strains isolated from a contaminated industrial site. Effect of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin as PAH bioavailability enhancer. Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 2588 (2019).

Villaverde, M. Rubio-Bellido, A. Lara-Moreno, F. Merchan, E. Morillo. Combined use of microbial consortia isolated from different agricultural soils and cyclodextrin as a bioremediation technique for herbicide contaminated soils. Chemosphere 193: 118-125 (2018).

Rubio-Bellido, E. Morillo, J. Villaverde. Assessment of soil diuron bioavailability to plants and microorganisms through non-exhaustive chemical extractions of the herbicide. Geoderma 312: 130-138 (2018).

Morillo, J. Villaverde. Advanced technologies in remediation of pesticide contaminated soils. Science of the Total Environment 586: 576–597 (2017).

Villaverde, M. Rubio-Bellido, F. Merchan, E. Morillo. Bioremediation of diuron contaminated soils by a novel degrading microbial consortium. Journal of Environmental Management 188: 379-386 (2017).

Maqueda, T. Undabeytia, J. Villaverde, E. Morillo. Behaviour of glyphosate in a reservoir and the surrounding agricultural soils. The Science of the Total Environment 593: 787-795 (2017).

Marina Rubio Bellido; Esmeralda Morillo González; Jaime Villaverde Capellán. Effect of addition of HPBCD on diuron adsorption–desorption, transport and mineralization in soils with different properties. Geoderma, 265, 196-203. 2016.

Fernando Madrid; Marina Rubio Bellido; Jaime Villaverde; Manuel Tejada; Esmeralda Morillo. Natural attenuation of fluorene and pyrene in contaminated soils and assisted with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin. Effect of co-contamination. Science of the Total Environment. 571, 42 – 49. 2016.

M. Rubio-Bellido; F. Madrid; E. Morillo; J. Villaverde. Assisted attenuation of a soil contaminated by diuron using hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin and organic amendments. Science of the Total Environment. 502, 699 – 705. 2015.

S. R. Faria; J. M. De La Rosa; H. Knicker; J. A. Gonzalez-Perez; J. Villaverde; J. J. Keizer. Wildfire-induced alterations of topsoil organic matter and their recovery in Mediterranean eucalypt stands detected with biogeochemical markers. European Journal of Soil Science. 66,  699-713.2015.

M.A. Sánchez-Trujillo; S. Lacorte; J. Villaverde; C. Barata; E. Morillo. Decontamination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nonylphenol from sewage sludge using hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin and evaluation of the toxicity of leachates. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 21 – 1, 507 – 517. 2014.

E. Morillo; M.A. Sa´nchez-Trujillo; J. Villaverde; F. Madrid; T. Undabeytia. Effect of contact time and the use of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin in the removal of fluorene and fluoranthene from contaminated soils. Science of the Total Environment. 496, pp. 144 – 154. 2014.

Fatima Sopena; Leonila Laiz; Esmeralda Morillo; Maria Antonia Sanchez-Trujillo; Jaime Villaverde; Valme Jurado; Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez. Phenanthrene Biodegradation by Pseudomonas xanthomarina Isolated from an Aged Contaminated Soil. Clean-Soil Air Water. 42,785-790.2014

M. A. Sanchez-Trujillo; E. Morillo; J. Villaverde; S. Lacorte. Comparative effects of several cyclodextrins on the extraction of PAHs from an aged contaminated soil. Environmental Pollution.178,52-58.2013

J. Villaverde; R. Posada-Baquero; M. Rubio-Bellido; E. Morillo. Effect of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin on diuron desorption and mineralisation in soils. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 13, 1075 – 1083. 2013.

J. Villaverde; M. Rubio-Bellido; R. Posada-Baquero; F. Madrid; E. Morillo. Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin-based extraction for diuron bioaccessibility in an artificially contaminated soil. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry. 93, 1620 – 1627. 2013.

Jaime Villaverde; Rosa Posada-Baquero; Marina Rubio-Bellido; Leonila Laiz; Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez; Maria A. Sanchez-Trujillo; Esmeralda Mori. Enhanced Mineralization of Diuron Using a Cyclodextrin-Based Bioremediation Technology. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.60,9941-9947.2012

Esmeralda Morillo; Maria Antonia Sanchez-Trujillo; Jose Ramon Moyano; Jaime Villaverde; Maria Eulalia Gomez-Pantoja; Jose Ignacio Perez-Martinez. Enhanced Solubilisation of Six PAHs by Three Synthetic Cyclodextrins for Remediation Applications: Molecular Modelling of the Inclusion Complexes. Plos One.7-9,2012.

Tomas Undabeytia; Fatima Sopena; Trinidad Sanchez-Verdejo; Jaime Villaverde; Shlomo Nir; Esmeralda Morillo; Celia Maqueda. Performance of Slow-Release Formulations of Alachlor. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 74, 898-905. 2011.

Fatima Sopena; Jaime Villaverde; Celia Maqueda; Esmeralda Morillo. Photostabilization of the herbicide norflurazon microencapsulated with ethylcellulose in the soil-water system. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 195, 298-305.2011.