Ana V. Charles-Rodríguez is a full-time professor--researcher assigned to the Department of Food Science and Technology at the Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonio Narro. She is a chemist (1999) at the Autonomous University of Coahuila (Mexico). She received her MSc degree at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua in 2001 and completed her PhD studies at the Autonomous University of Coahuila in 2007, respectively. She has 25 publications with 348 citations and a h-index of 7.