Prof. Rosa María García-Gimeno has been a Full Senior Professor since 2017 in the Dept. of Bromatology and Food Technology, Veterinary Medicine Faculty of the University of Córdoba. She has more than 30 years of experience in the field of Food Hygiene and Inspection. She is a member of the HIBRO Research Group, specializing in the development and application of predictive microbiology and quantitative microbial risk assessment in food since 1990. In her research activity, she highlights the publication of more than 100 indexed scientific articles, of which, in 62% of cases, the impact index in the Food Science and Technology area has placed in the first tertile and, in 23% of cases, in the second tertile. Regarding the publication of 24 chapters of books, she highlights those made for the publishers Academic Press, CRC Press, Wiley, Nova Publisher, and INTECH, all of them dealing with some aspect of predictive microbiology in food and its various applications in food microbiological control. Thanks to the work of the research team to which she belongs (group PAI AGR-0170 HIBRO), this research group is one of the competent organisations advising EFSA.