Mario Martín Gamboa
Mario Martín Gamboa is a researcher and faculty member at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, holding a 'Cesar Nombela' senior research grant from the Regional Government of Madrid and an R3 certificate as an established researcher.
He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Technologies from Rey Juan Carlos University (2017), an M.Sc. in Renewable Energies, Fuel Cells, and Hydrogen from CSIC-UIMP (2014), and a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from Rey Juan Carlos University (2013). His research focuses on developing and applying life-cycle methodologies for sustainability assessment, integrating environmental, economic, social, and technical criteria.
Mario has contributed to over 20 national and international research projects. He is the principal investigator of the SMARTER and ASSISTANCE projects in Spain, as well as service contracts with the Joint Research Centre and IMDEA Energy. He also leads the Systems Analysis Work Packages in three current projects.
His leadership roles include coordinating the Spanish Network for Life Cycle Assessment (esLCA), serving as Associate Editor of Cleaner Environmental Systems (Elsevier), and being an Advisory Board member for the European projects InsectERA and gEneSys. He was also a scientific committee member and session chair at the 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (2023).
Mario has published 38 scientific articles (35 in JCR journals, 33 in Q1), four book chapters, and over 40 conference contributions. His work has been cited 1,199 times (Scopus) and 1,578 times (Google Scholar), with an h-index of 24. He has collaborated internationally with research groups in Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway, and Portugal. His international recognition includes roles as Spain's national correspondent for an EU study on gender balance in research, an expert evaluator for Poland's National Science Centre, and an Ambassador of the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) in Portugal.
In teaching, he has delivered over 1,000 hours in official and non-official programs and has been a guest lecturer at Korea University's Graduate School of Energy and Environment. He has supervised two Ph.D. theses (one ongoing) and over 10 B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses, alongside mentoring internship students.
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Energy Systems Modelling; Life Cycle Assessment; Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis; Sustainable Supply Chain; Sustainability Assessment.