Quintana

José Benito

Dr. José Benito Quintana (https://investigacion.usc.gal/investigadores/60011/detalle) has a permanent associate professorship position at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). He is a leading scientist in the field of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and environmental analysis, leading the Spanish network ESAR-Net (www.esarnet.es) since its foundation in 2017, and being one of the leading scientists (member of the core/management team) since 2023 of the international network SCORE (www.score-network.eu), both related with wastewater analyses. He is now the Spanish PI at USC of the large EU project EU-WISH (www.eu-wish.eu) and leader of the WP on drug use indicator in the RIAPAd network (https://riapad.es/). Furthermore he is involved in the Spanish project SYDRES (https://sydres.webnode.es) and the EUDA ESCAPE Network (https://www.euda.europa.eu/topics/escape_en), related to the analysis of drug residues in syringes.