Ma. Andrea Trejo Márquez: Food Engineer, Master in Food Chemistry, and Doctor in Food Science and Technology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is a tenured professor of "B" rank at the Faculty of Superior Studies Cuautitlán, UNAM, with 28 years of experience. She is responsible for the Postharvest Laboratory of Vegetable Products and serves as the Responsible Editor of the UNAM Science Outreach Journal. She leads various research projects and participates in Interinstitutional Committees for the Evaluation of Higher Education (CIEES) as Coordinator and External Academic Peer for the evaluation processes of educational programs. She provides services and consultancy to national and foreign vegetable exporters and fruit producers. She has developed protocols on gamma irradiation applied to export products and provided consultancy on the development of new products and shelf life of vegetable products and integral utilization. She has supervised 110 undergraduate and graduate theses. She has authored 24 scientific articles, 50 extended articles and conference proceedings, and 9 articles on scientific dissemination and 4 book chapters. She was awarded the "Special Chair Engineer Julián Rodríguez Adame" by UNAM for outstanding research work in the field of food science in 2007-2008, and the National Award in Food Science and Technology in 2006 from CONACYT-COCA COLA, in the category of Food Science and Technology.