Valentí Rodellas is a postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in Environmental Sciences at the UAB (2008 and 2009, respectively). He earned his PhD in Environmental Science and Technology at the UAB in 2014, with a thesis focused on the use of radium isotopes as tracers to quantify the fluxes of water and nutrients driven by SGD into the Mediterranean Sea, from local to basin-wide estimates. From 2015 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at CEREGE (Aix-Marseille Université, France), at first holding a fellowship co-funded by the PRESTIGE programme (MSCA-COFUND) and then granted with the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF). Since April 2019, he is holding a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral fellowship (Catalan Government) at the ICTA-UAB.  

His research is focused on the interactions between groundwater and surface water bodies, particularly on the fluxes of water and solutes (e.g. nutrients, metals, carbon) delivered by submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) to the coastal ocean. This involves the application of natural tracers to quantify the magnitude of groundwater fluxes, the identification of the mechanisms driving them, as well as the understanding of the geochemical and ecological consequences of SGD-driven fluxes for coastal and inland water bodies.