Dr. María José Martínez-Esteso graduated in biology from the University of Alicante in 2004. She holds a Doctorate (Experimental and Applied Biology Program) from the University of Alicante Apto cum Laude and an Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2011). She was a postdoctoral researcher for 3 years in the Allergens group at the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Joint Research Centre, European Commission in Belgium, and a researcher for 3 years in the same group at the Joint Research Centre, JRC-Geel, European Commission in Belgium. She has been a doctoral assistant in the Department of Agrochemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Alicante since 2018.