Iratxe López-de-Armentia (I.L.A.) is a senior scientist at TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) in Spain. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (2000) from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Spain. She also holds a degree in Advanced Studies in Food Technology and a Master’s degree in Enology, Viticulture and Wine tasting. She has more than 20 years of R&D experience developing research projects in food technology, mainly for the wine sector, in food preservation and in the development of new food ingredients and foods. Her research experience has been focused on the extraction, purification and characterization of bioactive compounds and also in the analysis of food ingredients and foods. She is specialist developing chromatography methods (HPLC/Diode Array detection-Fluorescence detection-Refractive Index detector). ORCID: 0000-0002-9536-416X.