Begoña Panea has a degree in Veterinary Medicine, Specialty of Bromatology, Health and Food Technology from the Faculty of Zaragoza (1989) and a PhD in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Zaragoza (2002). The predominant line of her work is the quality of the carcass, meat, and meat products. Many of her works include sensory tests with trained tasters or consumers. Over the years, she has focused increasingly on consumer perception studies, with reference to the psychographic factors and consumption habits that affect a purchase decision. She has been a principal investigator in 11 projects and collaborator in a further 56 projects, both national, international, or with companies. These projects resulted in 88 articles published in indexed journals and 164 presentations to congress. She is the author of 13 book chapters, including two books dedicated to study methodologies in carcass quality and meat in ruminants. Within teaching, she has co-directed three doctoral theses and 15 master's or end of degree projects, and she is a visiting professor at several Brazilian universities, teaching classes on differentiated quality. She is the Secretary of the Interprofessional Association for Agricultural Development and for the Ethics Committee on Research with Human Beings (CEISH) of the Agri-Food Research and Technology Center of Aragon.