Ingrid Contardo is a Food Engineer from the University of Santiago de Chile and has a PhD in Engineering Sciences in the Chemistry and Bioprocesses field from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is currently a Professor at the School of Nutrition and Dietetics of the Faculty of Medicine and Associate Researcher at the Center for Research and Biomedical Innovation (CIIB) of the Universidad de los Andes, Chile. She belonged to the Biopolymer Research and Engineering Laboratory (BiopRel). She is promoting her line of research related to the study of biopolymers from natural sources and their transformation or processing for the development of materials with applications in food and nutrition, with special interest in the nutritional requirements of the elderly population. In the last five years, she has directed three ANID project and participated in 12 FONDEF, CORFO, and/or FONDECYT projects as co-investigators. She has been awarded two Postdorado funds at the Universidad de los Andes and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has also received the Award for Excellence in Doctoral Thesis UC 2018, in the area of ​​Engineering and Technologies.