María de Lourdes Jiménez Badillo holds a PhD in Marine Science, Biological Oceanography, and Fisheries from the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM. Since 2000, she has been a full-time Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana (UV), carrying out research projects on the Assessment and Management of Fisheries Resources. From 2012 to 2016, she served as Director of Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías. From 2004 to 2008, she acted as coordinator of the master's and PhD programs on Ecology and Fisheries, UV. For 10 years, she was a research fellow of Instituto Nacional de la Pesca and a professor/research fellow for Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa for 3 years. The main objective of her research has been to generate scientific knowledge on fisheries resources, with focus on coastal fishing and those associated with protecting natural areas to provide scientific support for their management. Her interest has always been to focus on conducting research which attends to societal demands and contributes to problem solving in the field of fishing and aquaculture, involving productive, academic, and governmental sectors.