Mirta Inés Aranguren is a Professor at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina, and a senior researcher (CONICET) at the Ecomaterials Group in INTEMA. She received a BSc in Chemical Engingeering from UNMdP and a Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Minnesota, USA. Her interests are polymers, composites, and nanocomposites based on biomass. She has had collaborations worldwide and is the author of 19 book chapters, 118 articles in international journals, and 255 works presented at scientific meetings. She is member of the editorial boards of four international journals and of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and the Argentine Society of Materials (SAM). She received a Life Achievement Award from the (Argentine) National Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences and was internationally recognized with the King Baudouin-IFS award (International Foundation for Sciences) and the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.