https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elizabeth-Carvajal-Millan Dr. Elizabeth Carvajal-Millan is a full-time academic and researcher at the Center for Research in Food and Development (CIAD) in México. She obtained her PhD in 2004 (Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, Montpellier, France). Her topics of research are as follows: biopolymers, mainly in extracting and characterizing polysaccharides from several sources, especially from coproducts recovered from the food industry and agriculture, and the study of polysaccharide-based biomaterials (gels, microspheres, nanospheres, and films as functional systems in food, biotechnology, biomedicine, and pharmaceutical areas). She is a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico (level 3, the maximum granted), a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and a member of The Scientific Committee of La Maison Universitaire Franco-Mexicaine (MUFRAMEX). She received the First Place Prize Dr. Gastón Madrid-Sanchez award. In biomedicine and chemistry, she received the Health Research Awards 2020, awarded by the Government of Sonora State and the Ministry of Public Health in Mexico. Other distinctions include the following: Cover Selected in J. Appl. Polym. Sci., Volume 135, Issue 27 (July 2018); Best Poster Presentation; and Fifth European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE) International Polysaccharide Conference, Jenna, Germany, August 2017.