Dr. Jorge Aburto holds a B.Sc. in Food Chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA) and Ph.D. from National Polytechnique Institute of Toulouse (INPT), France. He was a Visiting Researcher at the AgroBiotechnology Institute (IFA-Tulln) of the Agricultural University of Vienna (BOKU), Austria. Dr. Jorge Aburto was a Researcher at the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP) from 2000 to 2024. Dr. Aburto’s main research areas are bio-based chemicals and materials for applications in the petroleum industry, biomass deconstruction and conversion, production of lignocellulosic ethanol, road and aviation fuels, enzyme kinetics and applications in the oil industry, petroleum biorefining, precipitation inhibitors of asphaltenes, and petroleum pipelining through O/W emulsions. He is currently a Level 3 National Researcher. Dr. Aburto was designated Mission innovation Champion of Mexico by the Mission Innovation Initiative in 2019 thanks to his contribution to and vision on bioenergy deployment in Mexico and the decarbonization of the petroleum and gas industry.