Emma Huertas holds a Ph.D. in Marine Sciences (Extraordinary award in 1998) granted by the University of Cádiz and she is currently a Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalucia (ICMAN-CSIC) since 2007.

Background
Previously (2004-2007), she was hired as a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the same institution after completing a 2.6 year Post-Doctoral period (1999 and 2002) at the Universities of York and Toronto (Canada). Her main research interests lie within the field of marine biogeochemistry. Particularly, her grants and projects focus on the study of the role of the ocean in the Earth's climate system, characterizing the contribution of the marine realm (including both coastal and open ocean regions) to the exchange of greenhouse gases (GHGs) with the atmosphere. Likewise, she investigates the consequences of the marine absorption of atmospheric CO2 on the chemistry of seawater (ocean acidification) and its impact on organisms, from planktonic to higher trophic levels. Her field studies have been mostly conducted in marine eco-regions located in the South of the Iberian Peninsula, such as the Gulf of Cadiz and the Strait of Gibraltar although she has also performed extensive research in unique coastal systems, such as the massive Guadalquivir estuary and the wetlands of the Doñana National Park. She established (in 2005) and manages the fixed ocean observatory GIFT (Gibraltar Fixed Time Series) that provides data to databases of international agencies involved in the control of climate change. Her research outcomes also contribute to a number of international programs.

Scientific career summary

• She has participated in more than 20 research projects, 8 of which are European funded, with a role of principal investigator in 4 of them. The rest of her grants have been funded by different Spanish and Regional Ministries and Public Administrations, and she has coordinated 10 of them.
• She has taken part in 17 oceanographic campaigns, in 12 of them as chief scientist.
• She has published more than 75 scientific articles, reports, datasets and book chapters, 50 of them in SCI journals.
• She has supervised three post-doctoral researchers, two P.D. theses and a number of undergraduate and Master's students. Currently, she is directing two more Ph. D. Thesis.
• At present, she is the Deputy Director of the ICMAN-CSIC (from 2015), member of the Scientific Advisory Committeeof the CSIC, of the Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales, of the international Advisory Committee of the ICTS Doñana and CSIC representative in the Governing Boards of the Natural Parks of Gibraltar and Bahia de Cadiz.
• Previously (2010-2017), she acted as a Deputy Coordinator for the National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP) in the area of Earth Sciences and as a member of the Executive board of ICOS (2010-2013).
• Currently, she is also the coordinator of the CSIC Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform WATER:iOS (Warming and acidification threats on ecosystem resources: i Ocean surveillance, https://pti-waterios.csic.es/).
• She has been requested as an expert for different national and international evaluation agencies, such as the AEI, ICREA, the Basque Government, the Belgian FNRS, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Argentinian ANPCy and the EC (more than 15 calls of H2020 and Horizon Europe).
• She reviews manuscripts for more than 20 top international journals and is also a lecturer in graduated programs of different universities (scientific tracked records in the CVA provided).