María del Carmen Salas-Sanjuan, a Professor of Soilless Crops at the University of Almería since 2004, teaches numerous subjects related to Plant Nutrition and Hydroponics to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and she has supervised more than 50 end-of-studies projects and five doctoral theses. The author of two books and almost 40 articles published in international journals, she is also a Principal Investigator of national research and private contract projects, as well as a President of the Substrate Group of SECH (Spanish Society of Horticulture Science).