Department: CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA Y DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE

Area: Petrology and Geochemistry

Research group: Applied Petrology

Email: david.benavente@ua.es

Personal web: https://personal.ua.es/es/david-benavente/

Doctor by the Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante with the thesis Modelización y estimación de la durabilidad de materiales pétreos porosos frente a la cristalización de sales 2002. Supervised by Dr. Salvador Ordóñez Delgado, Dr. María Ángeles García del Cura.

Dr. D. Benavente is head of the Applied Petrology Group and a member of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, at University of Alicante. He is Full Professor in Petrology and Geochemistry and his teaching includes Geochemistry and Prospecting Geochemistry, Applied Petrology and Crystallography. His research involves low temperature geochemistry processes, mainly in salt crystallisation, gas-water-rock and karst systems; geochemistry and transport of gases; petrophysics and durability of rocks; and conservation of historical and cultural heritage built in stone.