Montserrat Soliva Torrentó

Montserrat Soliva Torrentó (1 January 1943 - 15 September 2019)[1] was a Catalan doctor of chemistry.

She served as a professor of the Higher School of Agriculture of Barcelona of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and had been a leading authority in Spain on the subject of composting.

She worked for six years at the Laboratorio Químico-Textil de fibras artificiales de la SAFA in Blanes, and was a professor for 32 years at the School of Agriculture of Barcelona where she was responsible for subjects related to Agricultural Chemical Analysis and Management and treatment of organic waste.

After she retired, she continued to collaborate with the Organic Waste Characterization, Diagnosis and Composting group,[4] of the Barcelona School of Agriculture (ESAB-UPC).

Soliva's research primarily focused on composting, with the mission of preserving and improving the environment, protecting the soil and increasing agricultural productivity.