Associate professor at the Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
He is a civil engineer and holds a master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Northwestern University.
RESEARCH AREAS
His research focuses on water quality, metals in water and soil, contaminated water treatment systems, environmental geochemistry, environmental biotechnology, water quality assessment and monitoring, environmental impact and management. He also seeks to develop cutting-edge scientific research that feeds into public policy development, decision-making, and technology development to address today’s challenges of sustainability, resilience and equity.
LATEST 10 PUBLICATIONS
Díaz, J., Del Castillo, D. L., Oyarzún, R., Briso, A., Montecinos, M., & Pastén, P. (2023). The dynamics of arsenic and copper in solid and aqueous phases in reactive confluences receiving acid drainage: The role of turbidity and particle size. Environmental Pollution, 327, 121449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121449
Villanueva, C. M., Evlampidou, I., Ibrahim, F., Donat‐Vargas, C., Valentín, A., Tugulea, A., Echigo, S., Jovanović, D., Lebedev, A. T., Lemus-Pérez, M. F., Rodríguez-Susa, M. S., Luzati, A., De Cássia Dos Santos Nery, T., Pastén, P., Quiñones, M., Regli, S., Weisman, R., Dong, S., Ha, M., Kogevinas, M. (2023). Global assessment of chemical quality of drinking water: The case of trihalomethanes. Water Research, 230, 119568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.119568
Briso, A., Turri-Rivero, A., Montecinos, M., Molinos‐Senante, M., & Pastén, P. (2023). Chemical functionalization of drinking water treatment residuals with calcium silicate hydrate to treat metal-enriched waters. Journal Of Water Process Engineering, 54, 103884.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2023.103884
Muñoz-Arango, D., Torres-Rojas, F., Tapia, N., Vega, M., Alvear, C., Pizarro, G., Pastén, P., Cortés, S., Vega, A., Calderón, R., Nerenberg, R., & Vargas, I. T. (2023). Perchlorate and chlorate assessment in drinking water in northern Chilean cities. Environmental Research, 233, 116450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116450
Simon, F., Gironás, J., Rivera, J. I., Vega, A., Arce, G., Molinos‐Senante, M., Jorquera, H., Flamant, G., Bustamante, W., Greene, M., Vargas, I. T., Suárez, F., Pastén, P., & Cortés, S. (2023). Toward sustainability and resilience in Chilean cities: Lessons and recommendations for air, water, and soil issues. Heliyon, 9(7), e18191.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18191
Briso, A., Vega, A., Molinos‐Senante, M., & Pastén, P. (2022). Challenges and opportunities for drinking water treatment residuals (DWTRs) in metal-rich areas: an integrated approach. Environmental Science And Pollution Research International, 29(43), 65599-65612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20262-6
Montecinos, M., Briso, A., Vega, A., & Pastén, P. (2022). Settling of copper-rich suspended particles from acid drainage neutralization as a function of chemical composition and particle size distribution. Applied Geochemistry, 139, 105239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105239
Vega, A., Arce, G., Rivera, J. I., Acevedo, S. E., Reyes‐Paecke, S., Bonilla, C. A., & Pastén, P. (2022). A comparative study of soil metal concentrations in Chilean urban parks using four pollution indexes. Applied Geochemistry, 141, 105230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105230
Del Castillo, D. L., Runkel, R. L., Duhalde, D., Pastén, P., Arumí, J. L., Oyarzún, J., Núñez, J., Maturana, H., & Oyarzún, R. (2021). A simple low‐cost approach for transport parameter determination in mountain rivers. River Research And Applications, 38(1), 173-181. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3890
Vargas, F. S., Alsina, M. A., Gaillard, J. F., Pastén, P., & López, M. (2021). Copper entrapment and immobilization during cement hydration in concrete mixtures containing copper tailings. Journal Of Cleaner Production, 312, 127547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127547
