Ana E. Ortega-Regules is an Associate-Senior Professor at the Health Sciences Department at Universidad de las Américas Puebla and is a Coordinator of the BSc in Nutritional Sciences. She received her Doctorate in Fundamental Biology, Chemistry and Enology at the Universidad de Murcia, Spain. Prior to her appointment, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and at Universidad de las Américas Puebla. Her research centers on the extraction and stabilization of phenolic compounds and other bioactive substances from plants.