Dr. Ana González Abril is a biologist with a Master’s degree in Biotechnology. She received a predoctoral fellowship funded by the Xunta de Galicia and completed a predoctoral research stay at the Lombardy Cancer Center at Georgetown University (Washington D.C., USA). She earned her International PhD in Biology from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2019. She worked as a researcher at CYTMA (Advanced Technology Center for Research in the Marine and Food Industry in Vigo – ANFACO-CECOPESCA). Most recently, as a postdoctoral researcher (within the Margarita Salas program for the requalification of the Spanish university system), she carried out a two-year postdoctoral stay at IIM-CSIC (Marine Research Institute – CSIC) and at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL). She is currently working at the University of Vigo as an Assistant Professor in the field of Microbiology. Dr. González Abril is a member of the Spanish Society for Microbiology. She has experience in the analysis and characterization of microorganisms using mass spectrometry techniques, including the identification of microbial peptides biomarkers. Additionally, she has expertise in microbiome analysis through omics technologies.