María Inés Errea is an Argentinian Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Titular Professor and the Director of the Environmental Engineering Centre at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA). She graduated with her Bachelor of Chemical Sciences in 1989 and as Doctor of the University of Buenos Aires in the field Chemical Sciences in 2001. She also completed a postdoctoral sojourn in the Organic Chemistry Department of FCEyN-UBA. She directed and is still directing multiple doctoral and masters’ theses. Regarding her research interests, she previously worked in polysaccharides' structural determination and development of antivirals from carbohydrates and is currently focused on chemical modification of polysaccharides for water treatment and agrochemicals’ controlled release. She is a member of the Organic Chemistry Scientific Society (SAIQO) and was awarded the first prize in Environmental Technologies field by the Scientific Committee of the 7th Congress of Environmental Sciences-COPIME in 2019.