Alba Romano defended her doctoral tesis “Electrochemical water regeneration in intensive marine aquaculture systems”, developed in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the Universito f Cantabria, supervised by Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz and Prof. Ane Urtiaga. The academic event took place through Skype Business on June 29th, 2020. The evalution committee was formed by Prof. Raquel Ibáñez (University of Cantabria), Dr. Oana David (Fundación Tecnalia Corporación Tecnológica) and Dr. Ángel Fernández Mohedano (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).