Adria Sunyer Caldu

@aces.su.se

Postdoctoral fellow
ACESx, Stockholm University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Analytical chemistry, liquid chromatography (LC), gas chromatography (GC), high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), non-target screening, environmental pollution, human exposure, exposome

Scopus Publications

457

Scholar Citations

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Scopus Publications

Early-life chemical exposome: Comprehensive strategies for wide-scope screening of organic compounds
Camilla Guerrini, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Ruben Gil-Solsona, Joaquín Escribano, Maria Vinaixa, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, and Noelia Ramírez
Elsevier BV

Assessing the Fate of Benzophenone-Type UV Filters and Transformation Products during Soil Aquifer Treatment: The Biofilm Compartment as Bioaccumulator and Biodegrader in Porous Media
Sònia Jou-Claus, Paula Rodríguez-Escales, Lurdes Martínez-Landa, M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz, Jesús Carrera, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Gerard Quintana, and Cristina Valhondo
American Chemical Society (ACS)
The fate of selected UV filters (UVFs) was investigated in two soil aquifer treatment (SAT) systems, one supplemented with a reactive barrier containing clay and vegetable compost and the other as a traditional SAT reference system. We monitored benzophenone-3 (BP-3) and its transformation products (TPs), including benzophenone-1 (BP-1), 4,4'-dihydroxybenzophenone (4DHB), 4-hydroxybenzophenone (4HB), and 2,2'-dihydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone (DHMB), along with benzophenone-4 (BP-4) and avobenzone (AVO) in all involved compartments (water, aquifer sediments, and biofilm). The reactive barrier, which enhances biochemical activity and biofilm development, improved the removal of all detected UVFs in water samples. Among monitored UVFs, only 4HB, BP-4, and AVO were detected in sediment and biofilm samples. But the overall retained amounts were several orders of magnitude larger than those dissolved. These amounts were quantitatively reproduced with a specifically developed simple analytical model that consists of a mobile compartment and an immobile compartment. Retention and degradation are restricted to the immobile water compartment, where biofilm absorption was simulated with well-known compound-specific Kow values. The fact that the model reproduced observations, including metabolites detected in the biofilm but not in the (mobile) water samples, supports its validity. The results imply that accumulation ensures significant biodegradation even if the degradation rates are very low and suggest that our experimental findings for UVFs and TPs can be extended to other hydrophobic compounds. Biofilms act as accumulators and biodegraders of hydrophobic compounds.

Efficient removal of toxicity associated to wastewater treatment plant effluents by enhanced Soil Aquifer Treatment
Claudia Sanz, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Marta Casado, Sylvia Mansilla, Lurdes Martinez-Landa, Cristina Valhondo, Ruben Gil-Solsona, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, Jose Portugal, M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz,et al.
Elsevier BV

Factors driving PPCPs uptake by crops after wastewater irrigation and human health implications
Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Gerard Quintana, and M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz
Elsevier BV

Using integrative samplers to estimate the removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in a WWTP and by soil aquifer treatment enhanced with a reactive barrier
Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Barbara Benedetti, Cristina Valhondo, Lurdes Martínez-Landa, Jesús Carrera, Marina Di Carro, Emanuele Magi, and M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz
Elsevier BV

Target analysis and suspect screening of UV filters, parabens and other chemicals used in personal care products in human cord blood: Prenatal exposure by mother-fetus transfer
Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Amelia Peiró, Marta Díaz, Lourdes Ibáñez, Ruben Gil-Solsona, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, and M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz
Elsevier BV

Occurrence and fate of contaminants of emerging concern and their transformation products after uptake by pak choi (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis)
Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Oksana Golovko, Michał Kaczmarek, Håkan Asp, Karl-Johan Bergstrand, Rubén Gil-Solsona, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz, Lutz Ahrens, and Malin Hultberg
Elsevier BV

Distribution in marine fish and EDI estimation of contaminants of emerging concern by vortex-assisted matrix solid-phase dispersion and HPLC-MS/MS
Karina Lotz Soares, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Ednei Gilberto Primel, Gilberto Fillmann, and M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz
Elsevier BV

Reclaimed water in agriculture: A plot-scale study assessing crop uptake of emerging contaminants and pathogens
Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Paola Sepúlveda-Ruiz, Miquel Salgot, Montserrat Folch-Sánchez, Damia Barcelo, and M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz
Elsevier BV

Contaminants of emerging concern in marine areas: First evidence of UV filters and paraben preservatives in seawater and sediment on the eastern coast of Tunisia
Ferdaws Fenni, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Hedi Ben Mansour, and M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz
Elsevier BV

Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica accumulates sunscreen UV filters
Nona S.R. Agawin, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, M. Silvia Díaz-Cruz, Aida Frank-Comas, Manuela Gertrudis García-Márquez, and Antonio Tovar-Sánchez
Elsevier BV

Oxybenzone contamination from sunscreen pollution and its ecological threat to Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
C.A. Downs, Elizabeth Bishop, M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz, S. Abbas Haghshenas, Didier Stien, Alice M.S. Rodrigues, Cheryl M. Woodley, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Shadan Nasseri Doust, William Espero,et al.
Elsevier BV

Development of a QuEChERS-based method for the analysis of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in lettuces grown in field-scale agricultural plots irrigated with reclaimed water
Adrià Sunyer-Caldú and M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz
Elsevier BV

Simultaneous degradation of 30 pharmaceuticals by anodic oxidation: Main intermediaries and by-products
Wendy Calzadilla, L. Carolina Espinoza, M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz, Adrià Sunyer, Mario Aranda, Carlos Peña-Farfal, and Ricardo Salazar
Elsevier BV

Rapid and cost-effective multiresidue analysis of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and antifouling booster biocides in marine sediments using matrix solid phase dispersion
Karina Lotz Soares, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Sergiane Caldas Barbosa, Ednei Gilberto Primel, Gilberto Fillmann, and M. Silvia Diaz Cruz
Elsevier BV

Development of a sensitive analytical method for the simultaneous analysis of Benzophenone-type UV filters and paraben preservatives in umbilical cord blood
Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Amelia Peiró, Marta Díaz, Lourdes Ibáñez, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, and M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz
Elsevier BV

A protocol for wide-scope non-target analysis of contaminants in small amounts of biota using bead beating tissuelyser extraction and LC-HRMS
R. Gil-Solsona, S. Rodriguez-Mozaz, M.S. Diaz-Cruz, A. Sunyer-Caldú, T. Luarte, J. Höfer, C. Galbán-Malagón, and P. Gago-Ferrero
Elsevier BV

Bioremediation of emerging micropollutants in irrigation water. The alternative of microalgae-based treatments
Lucas Vassalle, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, Enrica Uggetti, Rubén Díez-Montero, M. Silvia Díaz-Cruz, Joan García, and M. Jesús García-Galán
Elsevier BV

Behavior of uv filters, uv blockers and pharmaceuticals in high rate algal ponds treating urban wastewater
Lucas Vassalle, Adrià Sunyer-Caldú, M. Silvia Díaz-Cruz, Larissa Terumi Arashiro, Ivet Ferrer, Marianna Garfí, and Mª Jesús García-Galán
MDPI AG
The present study evaluated the efficiency of a high rate algal pond (HRAP) at pilot scale to remove pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from urban wastewater, including UV-filters and parabens (10), benzotriazoles (4), antibiotics (15), anti-inflammatories (3) and other pharmaceuticals (3). A total of 35 compounds were targeted, of which 21 were detected in the influent wastewater to the HRAP. Removals (RE%) for pharmaceuticals were variable, with efficient eliminations for atenolol (84%) and sulfathiazole (100%), whereas the anti-inflammatories naproxen and ketoprofen were only partially removed <50%. Benzotriazoles showed elimination rates similar to those of conventional WWTPs, with RE% ranging from no elimination to 51% for the UV filter benzophenone-3 (BP3) and 100% for 4-methylbenzilidenecamphor (4MBC). Hazard quotients (HQs) were estimated for those compounds not fully eliminated in the HRAP, as well as the cumulative ecotoxicity in the resulting effluent. The majority of the compounds yielded HQs < 0.1, meaning that no environmental risk would be derived from their discharge. Overall, these results clearly indicate that HRAPs are a reliable, green and cost-effective alternative to intensive wastewater treatment, yielding promising results removing these contaminants.

First application of carbon-based screen-printed electrodes for the voltammetric determination of the organic UV filters oxybenzone and octocrylene
Adrià Sunyer, Ainoa González-Navarro, M. Pau Serra-Roig, Núria Serrano, M. Silvia Díaz-Cruz, and José Manuel Díaz-Cruz
Elsevier BV

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Early-life chemical exposome: Comprehensive strategies for wide-scope screening of organic compounds
C Guerrini, A Sunyer-Cald, R Gil-Solsona, J Escribano, M Vinaixa, ...
TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 117903 2024

Screening of Biological Samples with HRMS to Evaluate the External Human Chemical Exposome
A Sunyer-Cald, M Marqus, R Gil-Solsona, P Gago-Ferrero
2024

Assessing the fate of benzophenone-type UV filters and transformation products during soil aquifer treatment: the biofilm compartment as bioaccumulator and biodegrader in
S Jou-Claus, P Rodrguez-Escales, L Martnez-Landa, MS Diaz-Cruz, ...
Environmental science & technology 58 (12), 5472-5482 2024

Efficient removal of toxicity associated to wastewater treatment plant effluents by enhanced Soil Aquifer Treatment
C Sanz, A Sunyer-Cald, M Casado, S Mansilla, L Martinez-Landa, ...
Journal of hazardous materials 465, 133377 2024

Factors driving PPCPs uptake by crops after wastewater irrigation and human health implications
A Sunyer-Cald, G Quintana, MS Diaz-Cruz
Environmental research 237, 116923 2023

The role of biofilm as a bio-accumulator of Ultraviolet Filters in porous media
P Rodriguez-Escales, S Jou, J Carrera, L Martinez, S Diaz-Cruz, A Sunyer, ...
EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU-12632 2023

Using integrative samplers to estimate the removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in a WWTP and by soil aquifer treatment enhanced with a reactive barrier
A Sunyer-Cald, B Benedetti, C Valhondo, L Martnez-Landa, J Carrera, ...
Science of the Total Environment 867, 161466 2023

Target analysis and suspect screening of UV filters, parabens and other chemicals used in personal care products in human cord blood: Prenatal exposure by mother-fetus transfer
A Sunyer-Cald, A Peir, M Daz, L Ibez, R Gil-Solsona, ...
Environment international 173, 107834 2023

Occurrence and fate of contaminants of emerging concern and their transformation products after uptake by pak choi (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis)
A Sunyer-Cald, O Golovko, M Kaczmarek, H Asp, KJ Bergstrand, ...
Environmental Pollution 319, 120958 2023

Distribution in marine fish and EDI estimation of contaminants of emerging concern by vortex-assisted matrix solid-phase dispersion and HPLC-MS/MS
KL Soares, A Sunyer-Cald, EG Primel, G Fillmann, MS Diaz-Cruz
Marine pollution bulletin 187, 114530 2023

Combinaci de l’anlisi dirigida i no dirigida per a la identificaci i determinaci de contaminants
A Sunyer Cald
Universitat de Barcelona 2023

Biofilms as a new environmental compartment: how most of the Ultraviolet Filters are retained in biofilm and soil in the context of Managed Aquifer Recharge
P Rodrguez-Escales, J Sonia, L Martnez-Landa, S Diaz-Cruz, J Carrera, ...
European Association of Geochemistry 2023

Reclaimed water in agriculture: A plot-scale study assessing crop uptake of emerging contaminants and pathogens
A Sunyer-Cald, P Seplveda-Ruiz, M Salgot, M Folch-Snchez, ...
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 10 (6), 108831 2022

Contaminants of emerging concern in marine areas: first evidence of UV filters and paraben preservatives in seawater and sediment on the eastern coast of Tunisia
F Fenni, A Sunyer-Cald, HB Mansour, MS Diaz-Cruz
Environmental Pollution 309, 119749 2022

Evaluating the fate of UV filters and transformation products during managed aquifer recharge: the role of reactive barriers, biofilms and varying redox.
S Jou-Claus, P Rodrguez-Escales, L Martnez-Landa, MS Diaz-Cruz, ...
EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU22-7511 2022

Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica accumulates sunscreen UV filters
NSR Agawin, A Sunyer-Cald, MS Daz-Cruz, A Frank-Comas, ...
Marine pollution bulletin 176, 113417 2022

Oxybenzone contamination from sunscreen pollution and its ecological threat to Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
CA Downs, E Bishop, MS Diaz-Cruz, SA Haghshenas, D Stien, ...
Chemosphere 291, 132880 2022

Additional information for materials and methods Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica accumulates sunscreen UV filters
NSR Agawin, A Sunyer-Cald, S Diaz-Cruz, A Frank-Comas, ...
Elsevier 2022

Procesos de mejora de la calidad durante la recarga artificial de aguas regeneradas a travs de una capa reactiva
J Carrera, C Valhondo, L Martnez-Landa, S Diaz-Cruz, B Pia, M Salgot, ...
2021

Suspect screening strategies to identify pharmaceutical, paraben and PFAS transformation products after uptake by Pak Choi vegetable
A Sunyer-Cald, M Hultberg, R Gil-Solsona, P Gago-Ferrero, S Diaz-Cruz, ...
2021

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Simultaneous degradation of 30 pharmaceuticals by anodic oxidation: Main intermediaries and by-products
W Calzadilla, LC Espinoza, MS Diaz-Cruz, A Sunyer, M Aranda, ...
Chemosphere 269, 128753 2021
Citations: 43

Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica accumulates sunscreen UV filters
NSR Agawin, A Sunyer-Cald, MS Daz-Cruz, A Frank-Comas, ...
Marine pollution bulletin 176, 113417 2022
Citations: 35

Bioremediation of emerging micropollutants in irrigation water. The alternative of microalgae-based treatments
L Vassalle, A Sunyer-Cald, E Uggetti, R Dez-Montero, MS Daz-Cruz, ...
Journal of environmental management 274, 111081 2020
Citations: 35

Development of a QuEChERS-based method for the analysis of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in lettuces grown in field-scale agricultural plots irrigated with
A Sunyer-Cald, MS Diaz-Cruz
Talanta 230, 122302 2021
Citations: 31

First application of carbon-based screen-printed electrodes for the voltammetric determination of the organic UV filters oxybenzone and octocrylene
A Sunyer, A Gonzlez-Navarro, MP Serra-Roig, N Serrano, MS Daz-Cruz, ...
Talanta 196, 381-388 2019
Citations: 25

Rapid and cost-effective multiresidue analysis of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and antifouling booster biocides in marine sediments using matrix solid phase dispersion
KL Soares, A Sunyer-Cald, SC Barbosa, EG Primel, G Fillmann, ...
Chemosphere 267, 129085 2021
Citations: 24

Behavior of UV filters, UV blockers and pharmaceuticals in high rate algal ponds treating urban wastewater
L Vassalle, A Sunyer-Cald, MS Daz-Cruz, LT Arashiro, I Ferrer, M Garf, ...
Water 12 (10), 2658 2020
Citations: 24

Target analysis and suspect screening of UV filters, parabens and other chemicals used in personal care products in human cord blood: Prenatal exposure by mother-fetus transfer
A Sunyer-Cald, A Peir, M Daz, L Ibez, R Gil-Solsona, ...
Environment international 173, 107834 2023
Citations: 21

Factors driving PPCPs uptake by crops after wastewater irrigation and human health implications
A Sunyer-Cald, G Quintana, MS Diaz-Cruz
Environmental research 237, 116923 2023
Citations: 17

Development of a sensitive analytical method for the simultaneous analysis of Benzophenone-type UV filters and paraben preservatives in umbilical cord blood
A Sunyer-Cald, A Peir, M Daz, L Ibez, P Gago-Ferrero, ...
MethodsX 8, 101307 2021
Citations: 14

A protocol for wide-scope non-target analysis of contaminants in small amounts of biota using bead beating tissuelyser extraction and LC-HRMS
R Gil-Solsona, S Rodriguez-Mozaz, MS Daz-Cruz, A Sunyer-Cald, ...
MethodsX 8, 101193 2021
Citations: 11