Esteban Alonso is Full Professor and Director of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Seville. In 2004 he founded the research group Anquimed (Industrial and Environmental Chemical Analysis), with the purpose of improving specifically the knowledge about the dynamics of priority and emerging pollutants in several environmental scenarios and industrial installations. He worked at the Center for New Water Technologies, a non-profit association of private companies and government agencies focused on the field of novel water technologies, before joining the University of Seville.