Dr. Cristina Bilbao-Sainz is an Agricultural Engineer at theWestern Regional Research Center, ARS, U.S. Department of Agriculture. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Following her M.S. degree, she was awarded a 6-month professional training grant to work in the Microbiology unit at the Agrotechnological Research Institute ATO-DLO in Wageningen, Netherlands. In 2002, she received her Ph. D. degree, cum laude, in the field of Food Technology. Following her dissertation, Dr. Cristina Bilbao-Sainz served for two years as a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at Unilever Food Company in England. She also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Washington State University where she researched new technologies for food preservation. In 2008, she joined the Healthy Processed Foods Research Unit at the USDA-ARS in Albany, CA, to perform research on new sustainable technologies for processing specialty crops and value-added processing of their co-products.