Research Teams
Coastal Geomorphology and Environment
Bio
Marine Science graduate by Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir (UCV) in 2008. In July and September 2007, she receives a 3rd-year grant on introduction to research from CSIC (first option in the natural resources area) at the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar of Barcelona (ICM-CSIC), where she starts her research career on hydrodynamic and morphological coastal phenomena and video monitoring techniques. Master’s Degree in Marine Sciences: Oceanography and Environmental Management by the University of Barcelona in 2009 where she received the Master’s Course Award. Obtained an International Ph.D. in Marine Science (Doctoral Quality Programme) by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in November 2012 with a dissertation titled “Beach inundation and morphological changes during storms using video monitoring techniques” on a JAE-Predoc grant given by CSIC and co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF). Torres-Quevedo researcher at Iberport Consulting S.A. between November 2013 and July 2014. Accredited Ph.D. lecturer of 1st and 3rd year of the Marine Science Degree at UCV from September 2014 and Vice-Dean from September 2017 to July 2019. Currently, Academic Coordinator in the Project European University for Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability, EU-CONEXUS" (612599-EPP-1-2019-1-FR-EPPKA2-EUR-UNIV), for the creation of a European University in which participates members from France, Greece, Lithuania, Romania, Croatia, Germany and Ireland.
In the past five years, she has been author and co-author of four publications in indexed journals, three of them in the first Q1 quartile, a book chapter and over 10 communications to national and international conferences. Since 2009, she has taken part as researcher in a joint project on coastal evolution monitoring with Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) of Italy and the European project Integrate Coastal Alarm Aystem, iCoast (ECHO/SUB/2013/661009) for the reduction of coastal risk due to storms. She has recently participated in a research contract on “Coastal characterisation of the Valencia region for aquaculture” to characterise the oceanographic and climatic conditions, in the project “Environmental changes in the Gulf of Valencia: predictive models of its evolution based on sedimentary, cartographic and volumetric calculation record data” and currently in the project ‘Morphodynamica of protected beaches in the Mediterranean under climate change: Observations’ (RTI2018-093941-B-C32).
Her research is focused on hydrodynamics, morphodynamics and coastal evolution in shallow waters, from the shoreline to the shelf-break in the short and middle term. Her research is mainly based on “in situ”, remote observations, modelling of beach inundation and morphological changes during storm conditions to study coastal impacts and historical records of extreme events.