Prof. Dr. Maria Zambrano-Zaragoza

PhD in Food Science from Autonomous University of Queretaro in 2013. Has been a full professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico FES—Cuautitlan since 2004. Responsible for the Laboratory of Transformation Process and Emerging Technologies in Foods, L16-UIM. Investigation area is nanotechnology applications to increase foods' shelf lives. She has 44 peer-reviewed articles (h-index = 16) with more than 800 citations, and has supervised 73 undergraduate theses and 7 postgraduate theses. She is also the author of 85 divulgation articles, 30 electronic divulgation articles, more than 150 congress presentations, and 10 book chapters, and also holds 5 patent applications. Honors and awards mentioned include PROFOPI-UNAM prizes for the best technological innovation in 2014, 2015, and 2017; the state science and technology award (2020); a National University award (2022); and an award from the National Chemical of SQM (2022).