Dr. Cevallos graduated as a Food Engineer from ESPOL before completing a master's degree in food science and another in agribusiness at the University of Florida. His PhD degree is in Food Science with postdoctoral studies in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the use of omics tools, especially metabolomics and metagenomics in pathogen characterization as well as microbial biodiscovery. He has published numerous articles related to food microbiology and received several awards during his career, including the ESPOL Research Development Award in 2015, Teacher-Researcher at FCV and CIBE-ESPOL. He currently serves as director of the national network of universities VLIR Network Ecuador.