Rate My Professor Cristina González

Her research focuses on aeromicrobiology, examining the global dispersion of pathogenic microorganisms via dust storms, particularly Saharan dust events, and their impact on air and health quality. Additional interests include wastewater reclamation using innovative membrane photobioreactors with microalgae-bacteria consortia, water quality in parasitology, and environmental microbiology. She has contributed to multiple projects, such as TECNOMAC for agro-food safety markers in Macaronesia, PID2021-125404OB-I00 on membrane bioreactors for resource recovery from wastewater, MICAS linking Saharan dust to asthmatic microbiomes, and international collaborations with NASA and Virginia Tech on dust-borne microbes. González Martín has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles, including "Airborne Bacterial Community Composition According to Their Origin in Tenerife, Canary Islands" (Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021), "Assessing conditions favoring the survival of African dust-borne microorganisms during long-range transport across the tropical Atlantic" (Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 2024), "Performance of a novel rotating membrane photobioreactor based on indigenous microalgae-bacteria consortia for wastewater reclamation" (Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 2023), "The Global Dispersion of Pathogenic Microorganisms by Dust Storms and Its Relevance to Agriculture" (Advances in Agronomy, 2014), and "Impact of Saharan Dust and SERPINA1 Gene Variants on Bacterial/Fungal Balance in Asthma Patients" (International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2025). She received a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Fundación Canaria Doctor Manuel Morales for international research stays.