Prof. Dr. Ricardo Manríquez-González is the Head of the Chemistry Laboratories in the Deparment of Wood, Cellulose and Paper at the University of Guadalajara. He received his Master’s Degree in Pharmacobiology from the University of Guadalajara in 2000, and his PhD in Chemistry from the Free University of Berlin in 2007. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the National System of Researchers Level 2. Furthermore, he is a peer reviewer for several scientific journals, including Cellulose,  ACS Omega, Carbohydrate Research, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, and Gels. Also, he has been a guest editor in Polymers of MDPI and currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Applied Magnetic Resonance of Springer Nature. His research interests include zwitterionic cellulose, solid state NMR, hybrid materials, chemical functionalization, bacterial cellulose and molecular interactions.