Maria Tormo-Santamaria holds a PhD in Health Sciences, a Master's degree in Public Health and is a Dietician and Assistant Professor at the University of Alicante. She belongs to the Balmis Research Group in History of Science, Health Care and Food. Her main research activity has focused on the history of food and nutrition education policies in contemporary Spain. Recently, she has incorporated the history of gastronomy and gastronomy for development cooperation. Her latest publications include the monograph Alimentación, gastronomía y nutrición en el camino de la sostenibilidad. Historia de una convergencia (Publications of the University of Alicante, 2021), the book chapter "Nutrition and health in Spain in the first third of the 20th century" (collected in the monograph Sociedad urbana y salud pública. España, 1860-1936. Libros de la Catarata, 2021) and the article "Making a virtue of necessity: Food education and gastronomy in the Spanish Civil War and post-war period (1936-1952)". International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science. 2020; 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgfs.2020.10023. ORCID: 0000-0002-5097-5696