Dr. Mónica Cala is the Head of the Metabolomics Core Facility (MetCore, https://metcore.uniandes.edu.co/) at Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia, and a founding member of the Latin American Metabolic Profiling Society (LAMPS, http://lamps-network.org/). She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia, and in 2017 she obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the Universidad de Los Andes. Between 2006 and 2011, she contributed in the research for secondary metabolites with antioxidant properties in Colombian aromatic plants using GC-MS, LC-MS, and CE-MS. Since 2012, she has applied high-resolution mass spectrometry-based non-targeted metabolomics and lipidomics in different research areas, including biomedical application in breast cancer. In 2019, she established the Metabolomics Core Facility, MetCore, under the Vice Presidency of Research at Uniandes, the first Metabolomics Center in Colombia. Since then, she has participated in promoting the awareness of metabolomics in Latin America. At MetCore, she leads research projects applying non-targeted and targeted metabolomics in health, nutrition, and agriculture. MetCore aims to provide access to cutting-edge technology implemented in mass spectrometry-based metabolomics using GC-MS, CE-MS, and UHPLC-MS, to conduct innovative and multidisciplinary research projects and provide metabolomic services in Colombia and the Latin American region.