
Cristina Trueba
Ministry of Science Innovation and Universities
Head of area
Head of Area at the General Secretariat for Innovation, of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities being responsible for sectoral policies. She is the Spanish delegate to the High-level Steering Group of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) and chair of the Concentrated Solar Thermal Technologies Implementation Working Group (CST-IWG) of the SET Plan.
Before joining the Ministry in 2022, she worked as Project Manager at the European Projects Office, of the Research Centre on Energy, Technology and Environment (CIEMAT), a was National Contact Point on energy related projects in the Horizon Europe and H2020 Programmes. Cristina has many years of experience, as a Staff Senior Scientist at CIEMAT, in the area of radiation protection, specialising in emergency planning and response, recovery and rehabilitation strategies, offsite consequences of nuclear accidents, radioecology and stakeholder engagement processes.
She holds a MSc. in Agricultural Engineering and a PhD in the assessment of the radiological vulnerability of soils, both from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.