GELP has been awarded with a Project from the prestigious ”la Caixa” Foundation Health Call. Within the Health Research Call, it is one of 34 biomedical research projects selected from more than 700 proposals submitted in this edition. This project funded with almost one million euros is based on a consortium of four groups:  Hospital del Mar Research Institute (Research group of Dr. Alex Calon); Universidad de Granda (Research group of Dr Daniele Lo Re;  Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG) (Research group of Dr. Holger Heyn); and Universidad de Oviedo (GELP Group).  

Giulia has joined our research group for the weeks to work on LA-ICP-MS!! Giulia Terlecki is a PhD candidate in Biological Oceanography at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG, Brazil), where she investigates trophic and population structure of fish, with a focus on stock definition. She has previous experience with population structure using genetic approaches and is currently working to understand the ecology, ontogenetic movements and individual specialization of Prionace glauca and Isurus oxyrinchus through isotopic and microchemical analyses of vertebrae. This stage of the study is being developed in collaboration with the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and…

Mafalda will join our research group for the next month of November 2025 to work on LIBS and LA-ICP-MS!! Mafalda Costa is an Invited Auxiliary Researcher at HERCULES Laboratory (University of Évora) and a «La Caixa» Foundation Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellow. She holds a joint-degree PhD in Archaeology and Earth and Space Sciences in the Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of Évora (Portugal), respectively. Mafalda’s knowledge in a wide range of analytical techniques – XRF, SEM-EDS, micro-Raman spectroscopy, XRD and LA-ICP-MS – has enabled the determination of composition, provenance and manufacturing technology of historical artifacts and painting materials. Her…

GELP members have attended the I Encuentro Nacional de Materiales en Contacto con Hidrógeno, where academic and industry experts shared their research related to hydrogen embrittlement providing valuable insights on the state-of-the-art of this critical topic. GELP is working to demonstrate the potential of optical spectroscopy (LIBS) and mass spectrometry (GD-TOF) as techniques to characterize spatial distribution of hydrogen in materials of interest to provide complementary information to engineering studies. We hope fruitful colaborations will arise from this conference!! Congratulations to Borja Peral and Inés Fernández from SimuMecaMat for a fantastic event!!

Hana Koprivová from CEITEC BUT, Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy (https://libs.ceitec.cz/) in Brno (Czech Republic) will stay in our Research Group for 3 months (from March 17th until the middle of June 2025) to work on a LA-ICP-MS related project! Welcome Hana!!