Pablo Arturo Pastén
email ppasten@uc.cl
Research Lines:
Environmental Biotechnology Bio-geo-chemical Processes (Particularly Interaction Between Metals and Microorganisms) Oversight and Assessment of Water Quality Environmental Impact Environmental ManagementKeywords from publications:
Drinking Water Resilience Chile Air Pollution Sustainability Cities Ver más...Profile
My work involves cutting-edge research in geochemistry, environmental engineering, and sustainability, with impact on the praxis and policy toward societal challenges in a context of transdisciplinary collaboration.
My group combines field, laboratory, and modeling studies in geochemistry and pollution control in water and soil, attracting a continued stream of students and funding from the government and industry. Principal researcher of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), a major research center funded by ANID since 2013. Awarded funding from ANID (Fondecyt Fondef, ECOS) and CORFO. International collaborator in three NSF projects. Served in the Fondecyt panel for Civil Eng.
Associate Editor of Applied Geochemistry, the official journal of the Intl. Associat. of Geochemistry (published by Elsevier). Reviewer of numerous articles and scientific proposals. Selected Eshbach fellow at Northwestern University, USA and stayed there for a 1-year sabbatical.
I received the Engineering UC Teaching Award (2016) and the UC Teaching Excellence Award (2017). Designed and implemented new courses and labs strengthening civil & environmental engineering undergraduate, MSc, and PhD programs at PUC. As director of the environmental engineering program, I coordinated the implementation of two majors. I have served as visiting peer for the accreditation and evaluation of programs in environmental engineering in Chile and abroad.
Since 2022, I have presided de engineering faculty hiring commitee at PUC. I was elected to represent faculty in the Dean's Engineering Faculty Council. Member of the University Committee on Research Safety since 2014, I leaded the development of the UC Institutional Safety Plan and Policy (2023).
Former member of the Advisory Council to the Chilean minister of the environment, I have led consulting engagements for the public sector and private industry in the areas of environmental pollution, control, and sustainability.
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| Localising urban sustainability indicators: The CEDEUS indicator set, and lessons from an expert-driven process | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102683 |
| Porous Media Characterization to Simulate Water and Heat Transport through Green Roof Substrates | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2016.10.0101 |
| Chlorine Reduction Kinetics and its Mass Balance in Copper Premise Plumbing Systems During Corrosion Events | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12223676 |
| Copper Corrosion and Biocorrosion Events in Premise Plumbing | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10091036 |
| Field and Numerical Investigation of Transport Mechanisms in a Surface Storage Zone | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004716 |
| Rusty river: Effects of tufa precipitation on sediment entrainment in the Estero Morales in the central Chilean Andes | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.287 |
| Enhancement of particle aggregation in the presence of organic matter during neutralization of acid drainage in a stream confluence and its effect on arsenic immobilization | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.03.107 |
| Response of suspended sediment particle size distributions to changes in water chemistry at an Andean mountain stream confluence receiving arsenic rich acid drainage | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10995 |
| Challenges and opportunities for drinking water treatment residuals (DWTRs) in metal-rich areas: an integrated approach | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20262-6 |
| A comparative study of soil metal concentrations in Chilean urban parks using four pollution indexes | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105230 |
| Settling of copper-rich suspended particles from acid drainage neutralization as a function of chemical composition and particle size distribution | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105239 |
| A simple low-cost approach for transport parameter determination in mountain rivers | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3890 |
| Environmental Aspects of a Major ARD Source at El Indio Au-Cu-As District, North-Central Chile | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-021-00804-z |
| Assessment of a conservative mixing model for the evaluation of constituent behavior below river confluences, Elqui River Basin, Chile | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3823 |
| Copper entrapment and immobilization during cement hydration in concrete mixtures containing copper tailings | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127547 |
| Cell-free biosensors for rapid detection of water contaminants | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0571-7 |
| An integrated study of health, environmental and socioeconomic indicators in a mining-impacted community exposed to metal enrichment | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-019-00308-4 |
| Partitioning of copper at the confluences of Andean rivers | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127318 |
| Water Quality: Trends and Challenges | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76702-4_3 |
| A new aerobic chemolithoautotrophic arsenic oxidizing microorganism isolated from a high Andean watershed | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10532-017-9813-x |
| Arsenite and arsenate immobilization by preformed and concurrently formed disordered mackinawite (FeS) | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.10.032 |
| 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 |
| Perchlorate and chlorate assessment in drinking water in northern Chilean cities | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116450 |
| The dynamics of arsenic and copper in solid and aqueous phases in reactive confluences receiving acid drainage: The role of turbidity and particle size* | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121449 |
| Chemical functionalization of drinking water treatment residuals with calcium silicate hydrate to treat metal-enriched waters | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2023.103884 |
| Global assessment of chemical quality of drinking water: The case of trihalomethanes | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.119568 |
| Nitrate increases the capacity of an aerobic moving-bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) for winery wastewater treatment | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2024.060 |
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Robert Nerenberg2 publications
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Alejandro Briso2 publications
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Alejandra S. Vega2 publications
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Iro Evlampidou1 publication
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Patricio Walker1 publication
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R. Oyarzun1 publication
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Marcela Vega1 publication
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Tarek Manasfi1 publication
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Sandra Cortes1 publication
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Telma de Cassia dos Santos Nery1 publication
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Anca-Maria Tugulea1 publication
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Bernardo Gonzalez1 publication
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Javier Rivera1 publication
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Mauricio Montecinos1 publication
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Paolo Vineis1 publication
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Samantha C. Rush1 publication
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Diana Munoz-Arango1 publication
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Shaoxia Dong1 publication
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Gilles Flamant1 publication
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Mildred Lemus-Perez1 publication
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Gonzalo Pizarro1 publication
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Fathelrahman Ibrahim1 publication
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Cristobal Alvear1 publication
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Shaibu-Imodagbe Egbenya Musah1 publication
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Javier Rivera1 publication
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Marisa Quinones1 publication
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Shinya Echigo1 publication
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Alejandra Vega1 publication
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Maria Molinos-Senante1 publication
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Susan D. Richardson1 publication
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Jose Antonio Diaz1 publication
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David Reckhow1 publication
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Felipe Torres -Rojas1 publication
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Mina Ha1 publication
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Waldo Bustamante1 publication
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Manuel Rodriguez-Susa1 publication
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Carolina Donat-Vargas1 publication
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Marcelo Aybar1 publication
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M. Montecinos1 publication
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Sandra Cortes1 publication
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Amanda Eng1 publication
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Stig Regli1 publication
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Dragana Jovanovic1 publication
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Guillermo Arce1 publication
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Cristina M. Villanueva1 publication
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Manolis Kogevinas1 publication
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D. Castillo1 publication
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Stuart W. Krasner1 publication
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Natalia Tapia1 publication
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Songkeart Phattarapattamawong1 publication
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Margarita Greene1 publication
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Arben Luzati1 publication
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Antonia Valentin1 publication
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Juan Pablo Pavissich1 publication
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Francois Simon1 publication
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Ana Turri-Rivero1 publication
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Raill Calderon1 publication
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Karel Janak1 publication
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Gilles Flamant1 publication
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Richard Weisman1 publication
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Maria Molinos-Senante1 publication
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Albert T. Lebedev1 publication