Affiliation: Cátedra de Botánica General, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Vega is an Associate Professor of Morphological Botany at the Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, and a Principal Researcher at the National Research Council (CONICET). She received the "Lorenzo R. Parodi Award" for her scientific career in Plant Taxonomy, awarded by the Sociedad Argentina de Botánica (SAB). As the director of a research project on bamboo biochar for remediating arsenic-contaminated water, she won the first prize at the UBA Emprende Bootcamp (1st edition) and an Academic Mention from the Rector of the University of Buenos Aires for the Guaduar Project, which was selected as one of the 12 projects to participate in the acceleration phase of BRAIN Chile. Her main research interest is the Poaceae family, with one of her lines focusing on woody bamboos. Her research group is working on the taxonomy of some genera growing in America, using an interdisciplinary approach. On this basis, they are working on phylogenies based on morphological, anatomical, and molecular characters. Additionally, they are researching applications related to young shoots in human nutrition, fresh foliage and silage for animal forage, biochar as soil amendment in relation to plant growth, and magnetite nanoparticle-covered biochar in the remediation of arsenic contaminated wate