Ignacio Tomas Vargas
email itvargas@uc.cl
Research Lines:
Bio-energy Environmental Microbiology Biological Waste Water and Liquid Industrial Waste Treatment Systems Bio-corrosion of Potable Water Systems and Bio-geo-chemistryKeywords from publications:
Oxyanions Biocathode Microbial Electrochemical Technologies Biofilm Mic Marine Corrosion Ver más...Profile
Ignacio Vargas es Ingeniero Civil Ambiental de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Se licenció el año 2004 y recibió el grado de Doctor en Ciencias de la Ingeniería de la misma institución el año 2009. Durante los años 2010 y 2011 realizó un Postdoctorado en The Pennsylvania State Unversity (USA) desarrollando sistemas bioelectroquímicos o microbial fuel cells (MFCs) para producir energía a partir del metabolismo microbiano. Actualmente se desempeña como académico de jornada completa en el Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile donde realiza docencia e investigación en el área de Ingeniería Ambiental. Sus temas de interés se vinculan con la bioenergía, microbiología ambiental, sistemas de tratamiento biológico de aguas residuales y RILes, biocorrosión y biogeoquímica.
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| Soil microbial community responses to labile organic carbon fractions in relation to soil type and land use along a climate gradient | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107692 |
| A New Method for Sensing Soil Water Content in Green Roofs Using Plant Microbial Fuel Cells | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3390/s18010071 |
| Evaluation of Sedum as driver for plant microbial fuel cells in a semi-arid green roof ecosystem | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.08.017 |
| Chlorine Reduction Kinetics and its Mass Balance in Copper Premise Plumbing Systems During Corrosion Events | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12223676 |
| Effect of Tidal Cycles on Bacterial Biofilm Formation and Biocorrosion of Stainless Steel AISI 316L | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8020124 |
| The effect of scan rate on the precision of determining corrosion current by Tafel extrapolation: A numerical study on the example of pure Cu in chloride containing medium | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2019.04.064 |
| Effect of Hazardous Bacteria Isolated From Copper Plumbing System on Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Copper | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.20964/2019.03.09 |
| Copper Corrosion and Biocorrosion Events in Premise Plumbing | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10091036 |
| Study of poly(3,4-ethylendioxythiphene) as a coating for mitigation of biocorrosion of AISI 304 stainless steel in natural seawater | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.porgcoat.2017.09.009 |
| A new aerobic chemolithoautotrophic arsenic oxidizing microorganism isolated from a high Andean watershed | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10532-017-9813-x |
| Organotrophic acid-tolerant microorganisms enriched from an acid mine drainage affected environment as inoculum for microbial fuel cells | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.003 |
| The Electrochemically Active Arsenic Oxidising Bacterium Ancylobacter sp TS-1 | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201800943 |
| Constructed Wetland-Microbial Fuel Cells for Sustainable Greywater Treatment | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3390/w10070940 |
| Arsenic removal mediated by acidic pH neutralization and iron precipitation in microbial fuel cells | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.378 |
| Perchlorate contamination in Chile: Legacy, challenges, and potential solutions | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.02.034 |
| Electrochemically active microorganisms from an acid mine drainage-affected site promote cathode oxidation in microbial fuel cells | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2017.07.013 |
| When material science meets microbial ecology: Bacterial community selection on stainless steels in natural seawater | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112955 |
| Perchlorate and chlorate assessment in drinking water in northern Chilean cities | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116450 |
| Electrotrophic perchlorate reduction by a psychrotolerant acidophile isolated from an acid rock drainage in Antarctica | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2023.108458 |
| Toward sustainability and resilience in Chilean cities: Lessons and recommendations for air, water, and soil issues | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18191 |
| Synergistic effect of electrotrophic perchlorate reducing microorganisms and chemically modified electrodes for enhancing bioelectrochemical perchlorate removal | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116442 |
| Microbial electrochemistry and technology capacity building challenges-focus on Latin America & Caribbean and Africa | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-023-05761-x |
| Seasonal variation in the biological succession of marine diatoms over 316L stainless steel in a coastal environment of Chile | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2023.2300150 |
| Enhancing the contact-killing effect of copper by surface laser texturing | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2022.108497 |
| Mathematical modelling of microbial corrosion in carbon steel due to early-biofilm formation of sulfate-reducing bacteria via extracellular electron transfer | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2022.108058 |
| Testing the Test: A Comparative Study of Marine Microbial Corrosion under Laboratory and Field Conditions | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c01762 |
| Initial adhesion suppression of biofilm-forming and copper-tolerant bacterium Variovorax sp. on laser microtextured copper surfaces | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2021.111656 |
| Winogradsky Bioelectrochemical System as a Novel Strategy to Enrich Electrochemically Active Microorganisms from Arsenic-Rich Sediments | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13111953 |
| Bioprospecting for electrochemically active perchlorate-reducing microorganisms | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2022.108171 |
| Enhanced nitrogen and carbon removal in natural seawater by electrochemical enrichment in a bioelectrochemical reactor | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116294 |
| Biofilm formation of <i>Ancylobacter</i> sp. TS-1 on different granular materials and its ability for chemolithoautotrophic As(III)-oxidation at high concentrations | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126733 |
| Chlorate addition enhances perchlorate reduction in denitrifying membrane-biofilm reactors | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-022-11976-1 |
| Mining for Perchlorate Resistance Genes in Microorganisms From Sediments of a Hypersaline Pond in Atacama Desert, Chile | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.723874 |
| Bioelectrochemical chlorate reduction by <i>Dechloromonas agitata</i> CKB | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123818 |
| Electrochemical enrichment of marine denitrifying bacteria to enhance nitrate metabolization in seawater | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.105604 |
| Experimental Assessment of a Conducting Polymer (PEDOT) and Microbial Biofilms as Deterrents and Facilitators of Macro-Biofouling: Larval Settlement of the Barnacle <i>Notobalanus flosculus</i> (Darwin, 1854) from Central Chile | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9010082 |
| Long-term evaluation of soil-based bioelectrochemical green roof systems for greywater treatment | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122643 |
| Energy and copper recovery from acid mine drainage by microbial fuel cells. Effect of the hydrochar doping on carbon felt anodes | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2024.129095 |
| Synthetic greywater treatment using a scalable granular activated carbon bioelectrochemical reactor | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2024.108741 |
| Marine biocorrosion inhibition of Pseudomonas sp. biofilms on 304 stainless steel coated with poly-6-aminoindole produced by two different electrochemical methods | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.porgcoat.2024.108605 |
| Granular activated carbon tubular microbial fuel cell for decentralized greywater treatment | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2025.237121 |
| Enrichment of electrochemically active microorganisms in a chlorate-pressured environment | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2025.116696 |
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Natalia Tapia3 publications
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Felipe Torres -Rojas3 publications
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Alejandra S. Vega2 publications
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Carlos Gallardo-Bustos2 publications
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Rodrigo De la Iglesia2 publications
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Leslie K. Daille2 publications
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Janice Limson1 publication
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Mauricio Isaacs1 publication
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Javiera M. Anguita1 publication
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Javier Rivera1 publication
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Alejandra Vega1 publication
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Francisco Armijo1 publication
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Eduardo Corton1 publication
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Samuel A. Hevia1 publication
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Waldo Bustamante1 publication
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Ivan Nancucheo1 publication
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Marta Pascual1 publication
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Marcela Vega1 publication
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Valeria Reginatto Spiller1 publication
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Angela Cabezas1 publication
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Carlos Galarce1 publication
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Gilles Flamant1 publication
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Guillermo Arce1 publication
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Raill Calderon1 publication
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Claudia Rojas1 publication
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Diana Munoz-Arango1 publication
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Ola Gomaa1 publication
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F. Leyton1 publication
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Margarita Greene1 publication
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Francois Simon1 publication
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Francisca Rubio1 publication
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Cristobal Alvear1 publication
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John R. Spear1 publication
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Bibiana Cercado1 publication
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Luis Caro-Lara1 publication
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Diana Munoz1 publication
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Maria Molinos-Senante1 publication
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Robert Nerenberg1 publication
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Erik Castaneda1 publication
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Nicolas Veloso1 publication
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Javiera Aguirre1 publication
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Sandra Cortes1 publication
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Javier Rivera1 publication
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Rodrigo De la Iglesia1 publication
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Sandra Cortes1 publication
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Iwona Beech1 publication
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Francisco Armijo1 publication
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Camila Pia Canales1 publication
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Gilles Flamant1 publication
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Pedro Hernandez1 publication
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Javiera Castillo1 publication