Noelia Alcalá (female), MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2009. She has worked at ITAINNOVA since 2010 as an R&D technician in the advanced characterization of materials and components. She has participated in numerous R&D projects, in the characterization and development of testing methodologies in materials such as metals, thermoplastics, composite materials, elastomers. Moreover, she has developed activities in different research lines: functional life prediction in elastomers, reinforced plastic and steel materials and components, tribological behavior analysis of elastomeric or thermoplastic materials, physical and mechanical material properties improvement by manufacturing additivation or re-formulation, methodology development for the determination of vulcanization and rubber foaming kinetics, as well as for the kinetic determination of post-vulcanization processes in elastomers. She is co-author of a patent related to the increase in hydrophilic capacity of a plastic material without affecting its mechanical properties, as well as of 5 scientific–technical publications.