Andrea Alejandra Arrúa Alvarenga received her degree in Agronomic Engineering from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, National University of Asunción, in 2004. She subsequently earned an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Parasitology from Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Mexico, completing her doctoral degree in 2012. She has served as a full-time Teaching Researcher at the Multidisciplinary Center for Technological Research of the National University of Asunción (CEMIT-DGICT-UNA) since 2017. She was appointed Principal Researcher in 2021 and became Lead and Principal Researcher in 2025. She has also worked as an Associate Researcher in the Paraguayan Chamber of Exporters and Traders of Cereals and Oilseeds wheat research program since 2012. Her research topics mainly include mycotoxicology, food safety, phytopathology, agricultural and environmental mycology, toxigenic fungi, fungal bioaerosols, biological control of crop and postharvest fungal pathogens, and molecular and metagenomic diagnostics.