Ph.D. in Pharmacy from the Complutense University. She is a Researcher at Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias (ICIA) and a specialist in postharvest of tropical and subtropical fruits, as well as in Food Technology, specifically in the development of flow diagrams for the preparation of fresh-cut fruits. In addition, she investigates how to obtain bioactive compounds from by-products (skins, bones, seeds). She has developed many national and international projects and contributes to an extended number of scientific publications, books, book chapters, and conferences. ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5927-7934