Dr. Mónica Carrera is a tenured scientist at the Institute of Marine Research (IIM-CSIC) in Vigo, Spain (since 2020). She received her Ph.D. in Biology with Honors at IIM-CSIC in 2008. From 2008 to 2013, Dr. Carrera worked in the Proteomics and Systems Biology group headed by the scientist Prof. Dr. Ruedi Aebersold at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology (IMSB; ETH Zürich) in the fields of proteomics, food safety, and allergies. In 2015, Dr. Carrera was invited by the company Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, CA, USA) to work in its Food Proteomics facilities in collaboration with the scientist Dr. Daniel Lopez-Ferrer in the field of food quality and safety. Dr. Carrera is an internationally recognized expert in advanced proteomics and molecular systems biology in the context of seafood quality and safety. Dr. Carrera is an advisor to different international food and proteomics societies. Her trajectory was recognized through 10 scientific awards: best Ph.D. thesis 2009; best scientific publication 2010; best chairman 2012; best scientific publication 2016; honorific distinction CSIC 2017; excellent poster prize 2019; best scientific publication 2019; excellent congress presentation 2021; excellent European female researcher AcademiaNet 2021; finalist award alumni-UVigo 2022; and investigation award alumni-UVigo 2023.