María Paz is an agronomist with a Master’s in Soil and Water Management from Universidad de Chile, specialised in soil evaluation with agricultural and environmental aims.

She has over 7 years of experience, in the public sector she worked in local environmental management and for the private sector she has carried out environmental monitoring through the evaluation of soil, sediment, vegetation species and water impacted by mining.

She currently works as a Soil and Water Specialist focused on environmental remediation, in the Tailings and Contaminated Soil area of SMI-ICE-Chile.