Luis Zuñiga-Moreno B.Sc. graduated in Agro-industrial Engineering in Ecuador. He worked in several local food industries in positions related to food processing, quality assurance and R&D. He received an academic excellence scholarship from the Jeonbuk National University in South Korea to pursue his M.Sc. degree in Food Science and Technology, where he collaborated as researcher in the laboratory of Food Chemistry. Since 2017, he has been working as full-time professor and researcher in the Agro-industrial Enginerring department at the Agrarian University of Ecuador. His research interests reside in the utilization, biotransformation and characterization of antioxidant and functional components obtained from food by-products. Results of his work have been published in peer reviewed journals.