PONCE ALQUICIRA, EDITH

Dr. Edith Ponce Alquicira is a Pharmaceutical Chemist and Biologist graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at UNAM and holds a PhD in Food Science from the University of Nottingham, UK.

She completed a Diploma in Statistics and Quality Control at UNAM, is a National Researcher level II in the National System of Researchers, Professor PRODEP Profile, regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT, USA); she is also part of the founding group and president of the Mexican Association of Meat Science and Technology, A.C. (AMEXITEC).

Author of more than 75 scientific articles published in specialised journals, as well as 41 book chapters in food science and meat technology with national and international publishers, with 24 7citations with an h=25 index. At the same time she has supervised more than 47 bachelor's, master's and doctoral theses.

She is currently Full Research Professor C and head of the academic area in Biochemistry of Macromolecules in the Department of Biotechnology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus. Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of Macromolecules. She has participated in and directed various projects related to the isolation and characterisation of peptides with antimicrobial activity and the molecular and genomic characterisation of lactic acid bacteria as part of biopreservation strategies and the study of food microbiology, as well as the functional properties of muscle substrates, the results of which have been presented in various national and international forums; she has also collaborated in various projects with companies in the meat sector and received an honourable mention in the Professional Category in Science of the National Award for Food Science and Technology.

In relation to academic management activities she has held various positions, she has been head of the Department of Biotechnology, Divisional Postgraduate Coordinator, Coordinator of the Divisional Commission of Mass Spectrometry, member of the Biotechnology Postgraduate Commission as well as the Divisional Commission of Mass Spectrometry at UAM campus Iztapalapa