Prof. Cristobal N. Aguilar is a Mexican scientist with 30 years of experience working at the head of the Bioprocesses and Bioproducts Research Group of the Food Research Department of the School of Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila in northern Mexico. He was director of Research and Posgraduate Programs at Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (2018-2024), México. Before, he was Dean of the School of Chemistry (2014-2018), head of the Deparment of Research & Postgraduate Program (2007-2014) and Leader of the Food Research Dept (2000-2007) at the same School. Prof. Aguilar is a member level III of S.N.I. (Mexican System of Researchers) from 1998, receiving several prizes and awards among which the most important are: National Prize of Research 2010 of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Prize “Carlos Casas Campillo 2008” of the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioenegineering, National Prize AgroBio-2005 and the Mexican Price in Food Science and Technology. CONACYT-Coca Cola México 2003. 2018 Outstanding Researcher Award by the International Association of Bioprocessing. 2019 Coahuila-State Innovation, Science and Technology Award. 2022 2018 Distinguished Researcher Award by the International Association of Bioprocessing. Prof. Aguilar has developed more than 30 research projects, including 10 international exchange projects (ECOS-Nord and alpha network-EU and Marie Curie EU). He has been advisor of 60 PhD thesis, 80 MSc thesis and 150 BSc thesis. He is a Regular Member of the Mexican Academy of Science, Member of the central council of the Ibero-American Network of Mycology Researchers (RIIMICO), Member of the Central Council of the International Association of Bioprocessing, Founding member of the Ibero-American Federation of Biotechnology and international representative of the MX LATAM bioprocessing network. Read more about this authorRead less about this author