Dr. Adriana Carolina Flores-Gallegos has been a research professor at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the Autonomous University of Coahuila since 2015 and is a Member of SNI level I. Shs is pharmacologist chemist specializing in microbiology at the Autonomous University of Coahuila (UAdeC), She has a Master's and Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from the same University. She has carried out research stays at the University of Barcelona in molecular phylogeny in the department of genetics and at the MICALIS Institute of INRA, France. She is a member of the academic group in Food Science and Technology and belongs to the Basic Academic Core of the postgraduate courses in Food Science and Technology. She has worked in the areas of microbiology and bioprocesses, especially fungi that produce metabolites of industrial interest; lactic acid bacteria; molecular biology and phylogeny; bioinformatics; and proteomics. Her experience involves the functional genomics and proteomics of enzymes of interest in the food industry, the reconstruction of phylogenies, as well as the isolation and evaluation of microorganisms and their metabolites. She is currently a member of the Food Safety Thematic Network: Agroindustrial By-products Valorization and Reduction of Food Losses and Waste (PDA). She is also part of the board of directors of the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering (SMBB), Coahuila Delegation.