Dr. Nieves Aparicio Gutiérrez is a researcher of Herbaceous at the Agrarian Technological Institute of Castilla y León. She worked at the National Institute of Agrarian Research (INIA) before. She obtained a doctorate at the University of Lleida, ETSEA, and a master of science in plant breeding at the CIHEAM Zaragoza, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza.