Rogelio Valadez-Blanco is a full professor of Food and Bioprocess Engineering at the Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico. He earned his B.Eng. in Food Eng. from the Polytechnic National Institute (Mexico) and his M.A.Sc. in Chem. Eng. from the University of Toronto (Canada). He completed his PhD studies in Chem. Eng. at the Imperial College London (UK). He is a highly accomplished researcher with probing research leadership both nationally and internationally, with 21 JCR publications, 2 book chapters and 1 patent and a h-index score (Scopus) of 13 and has been newly promoted as Tier 2 of the Mexican National Research System. He is an experienced, excelled professor in the area of Food and Bioprocess Eng., in which his teaching disciplines include Fluid Mechanics, Unit Operations and Biotechnology Eng. He has been the Director of six undergraduate and nine postgraduate theses (two D.Sc.) and appointed as Doctoral External Co-Director by the Metropolitan Autonomous University and the National Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Valadez was awarded the XV Dr. Christopher Augur research prize granted by the UAM for the best doctoral article in 2023 and directed the thesis winner of the prize Sergio Sánchez Esquivel 2017 by the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Applikon Biotechnology. His research is mainly focused on food fermentation related to probiotic bacteria and the use of membrane technologies in bioprocess and biotechnology applications.