In September 2019, the Tunisian researcher Khaoula Ben Jeddou joined the GEAS group with a pre-doctoral contract.
The pre-doctoral contract awarded to GEAS is part of the IberusTalent call, in the Agri-Food and Nutrition Area, for the line of research presented by the Iberus Excellence Action Group, in which the GEAS group participates, which has as title: «Towards a sustainable use of new nanobactericides in the frontier of fight with antimicrobial resistance», of which Prof. Juan R. Castillo is Principal Investigator.
The IberusTalent project is funded in the 2017 call for Marie Slodowska Curie actions in the COFUND line of the European Union. Researcher Ben Jeddou Khaoula has a degree in “Analytical and Experimental Biology” and “Experimental Science”, and has completed two Master’s degrees in “Biology and the environment” and in “Food quality sciences and chemistry of natural products” . His doctoral thesis work will be carried out within the GEAS group, and will focus on the development of new nanobactericides with greater capacity and with less impact on the environment in the area of influence of the Iberus Campus of International Excellence (Ebro Valley).