Dr. Laura Sala-Comorera is a Postdoc Researcher with the Acclimatize Project.  She holds a BSc (Bachelor) in Environmental Science and PhD in Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology from the University of Barcelona. Her PhD research focused on the study and characterization of heterotrophic communities in natural mineral water and in drinking water treatment plants, as well the evaluation of different, efficient, robust and fast analytical methods to be applied in routine analysis.

Dr Sala-Comorera has 6 years experience in microbiological laboratories with the research group MARS (Health-Related Water Microbiology) and she has participated in several projects related to environmental microbiology. She is a member of the Catalan Biotechnology Reference Network, the Spanish Society for Microbiology and the Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Previously she was a member of the scientific committee for the Annual Congress of Young Researchers of the Water Research Institute within the University of Barcelona. Dr Sala-Comerera has attended several conferences related to her area of expertise and has published articles in indexed journals.