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Full-time professor at the Autonomous University of Queretaro in the Nanotechnology department of the Engineering Faculty. She has worked at the university since 2011. She has been a member of the National System of Researchers of the National Science and Technology Council since 2012, currently at level 2. Throughout her short career in the academia, her goal has been to contribute to scientific and technological development and give back to the scientific community through different published research. Within the work, different topics of scientific interest stand out, such as new methods for synthesizing nanostructured materials through chemical processes assisted by external energy sources like sonochemistry and microwaves. The materials that have been developed have applications as smart materials, in advanced oxidation processes for the treatment of water and air, as well as for their toxicological and elicitor evaluation in diverse plant species.

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Dr. Ana Angélica Feregrino Pérez is a faculty member at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ), Mexico, where she leads the Metabolites and Nanocomposites Laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering. She holds a B.Sc. in Nutrition and a Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from UAQ, as well as an M.Sc. in Neurobiology from UNAM. Dr. Feregrino’s research focuses on secondary metabolites, nutraceuticals, innovation, and value-added products. She has supervised undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral theses and participates actively in academic committees. She is a Level II member of the Mexican National System of Researchers and holds a PRODEP profile. Dr. Feregrino has authored publications in JCR-indexed journals, contributed chapters to books with publishers such as Springer and Elsevier, and has presented at national and international conferences. She has also served as a guest editor for special issues with publishers including MDPI and Hindawi and holds a registered trademark with patents in process.

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Bachelor in Chemist & Microbiology, Master and PhD in Plant Biotechnology. Professor at the School of Engineering-Campus Amazcala. Expertise in Plant molecular biology, Plant pathology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant physiology of stress and Agricultural Microbiology. Associate Editor in the Journals: Scientia Horticulturae (Elsevier), Frontiers in Plant Science (Frontiers Media), Plants (MDPI) and BMC Plant Biology (Springer Nature). Two-hundred and twenty-two published papers in these fields in the Journal of Citation Reports (H-Index 39). Current research lines regarding Plant Stress responses to physical, chemical and biological stressors based on hormetic responses in plants and microorganisms, for future sustainable agricultural strategies.

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Alessia Corami received her degree in Earth Science at University of Rome La Sapienza with a thesis about archaeometry “Characterization of mortars and plasters from the archaeological site of Elaiussa Sebaste (Turkey) and from the Quintili’s Villa on the Ancient Appian way in Rome in 1998”. Later, she won a fellowship about isotopic chemistry at Geokarst srl AREA Science Park. On 2001, she won a fellowship at Georesources and Geoscience Institute of Italian CNR. In 2002 she won Ph.D. fellowship at University of Rome La Sapienza “Phosphate-induced heavy metals immobilization in aqueous solutions and soils”. During her Ph.D. she spent 7 months in the USA at Miami University (OH-USA) working with Prof. John Rakovan. Later, she spent a period at Merced University (California) working with Prof. Samuel J. Traina. In 2005, 2006 and 2008 she went to ESRF in Grenoble working with Dr. D’Acapito. From 2007 she was a professor at Guglielmo Marconi University for 5 years, holding two courses, “Environmental Geology” and “Geomorphology”. In 2014 she was a visiting professor at Karl Eberhard University of Tübingen (Germany) During the last years she was a visiting assistant professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and from June 2024 she joined Aix-Marseille University/Cerege.