Marta Prado got her advanced degree in Food Science and Technology in 1999 from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). On 2005 she obtained her PhD from the same university in the program of Nutrition, Bromatology and Food technology. Between 2006 and 2010, she has been working as Scientific Officer in the Food Safety and Quality Unit at the Institute of Reference Materials and Measurements from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC-IRMM) in Geel, Belgium. During the last years she has been working on the development of real-time PCR methods for their application in food and environmental analysis, in particular to ensure the quality and authenticity of food products in the food chain. She has been working on the evaluation of the fitness-for-purpose of such methods, including transferability between laboratories, and their quantification potential. From November 2010 until September 2023 she worked at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), where she led the Food Quality and Safety Research Group (FQ&S) on the development of new, fast and reliable detection methodologies combining molecular biology and nanotechnology, the development and application of microfluidic platforms for bioanalysis and the application of biosensors as a tool to ensure safety and quality along the food chain. From October 2023, she works at the University of Santiago de Compostela as Distinguish Researcher with a Beatriz Galindo Senior Grant