Marta Yanina Pepino is a Professor of Ingestive Behavior in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the Division of Nutritional Sciences and in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. She earned her B.S. degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the Faculty of Chemical Sciences, National University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the same university in 2001. After completing her graduate degree, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monell Center in Philadelphia. Before joining the University of Illinois, she was a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Human Nutrition, Washington University School of Medicine. In 2011, she was the recipient of the 20th Annual Moskowitz Jacobs Award for Research in Psychophysics of Human Taste and Smell, a prestigious award given by the International Association for Chemoreception Sciences. Her current research interests include understanding (1) the effect of bariatric surgery-induced weight loss on flavor perception and eating and drinking behavior, (2) the effect of non-caloric sweeteners on taste preference and glucose homeostasis, and (3) taste and smell function in clinical populations.