Enrique Arriola-Guevara, research professor; national researcher I; Ph.D., ChE Oregon State University (USA, 1997). He has extensive experience in different academic positions, including 3 years as instructor at Oregon State University. His non-academic positions include production engineer, lab head in Chemical Engineering Lab Construction Program, and consultant. His fields of specialization are fluidization engineering and food engineering. He is the inventor of a novel multi-stage spouted bed system (five patents). He has been adviser for 60 Bachelor's projects, 15 Master’s, and 10 Ph.D. He was local chairman of the Mexican Institute of Chemical Engineers (IMIQ, 2006) and reviewer for Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Química and Journal of Food Science and Technology. His publications include 3 books, 4 chapters, more than 30 scientific papers, 2 technical supervisions of the Spanish version of ChE books (Chemical Reaction Engineering, by O. Levenspiel; and Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, by R.M. Felder and R.W. Rousseau). Finally, he has received several professional recognitions, including local and federal awards.