Dr Isabel Medina is a Full Professor at IIM-CSIC in Vigo. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She has served as the Principal Investigator in over 40 national and international research projects and contracts with the private sector. She has been in charge of various institutional and national research responsibilities, including serving as the National Coordinator of the Food Science and Technology Area at CSIC and being part of the coordination team for the Area of Technology Transfer, specifically the Sub-Areas of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock, at the National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP). She was Vice President of the SEAFOODPLUS Research Platform, an International Platform on Fisheries and Aquaculture Products, and a member of the Doctoral School of the University of Florence. In 2016, she received the First Prize of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences. She has published more than 135 peer-reviewed papers and is the author of eight patents, five of which have been licensed to industry. Her teaching disciplines include chemistry and food analysis, and her interests include marine lipids and omega-3 fatty acids, oxidation products, the bioactive and healthy role of fish and seafood components, and lipidomic and proteomic analytical tools.