Dr. Ronald Marquez is a Senior Research Associate and Research Manager in the Sustainable and Alternative Fibers Initiative (SAFI Consortium) at the Department of Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Laboratoire Physico-Chimie des Interfaces Complexes ESPCI Paris and TotalEnergies, focusing on bio-oil/heavy oil interfaces for marine transportation fuels (2021-2023). He also held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at NC State University, working on transforming textile wastes into biobased building blocks (2020-2021). Dr. Marquez earned his Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from the University of the Andes, Venezuela, where he focused on the interfacial rheological properties of surfactant-oil-water systems (2015-2019). He also holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of the Andes, Venezuela (2006). His research interests span interfaces and emulsions, biofuels, interfacial and bulk rheology, formulation, biobased materials, surfactants, sustainability, and pulp & paper biomass. Dr. Marquez has authored and co-authored numerous scientific journal papers and conference proceedings. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents and is a member of several professional and scientific societies, including the American Oil Chemists' Society, the Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI), the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the American Chemical Society.