Rosangel Ortega Villar graduated from Universidad Politécnica de Pachuca with a major in biotechnology. "Disinfection of urban runoff water in a photocatalytic permeable pavement" is the title of her thesis project. She currently studies at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo as a PhD candidate in environmental sciences. She is the first author of one research paper. Her areas of interest are hydrogeochemical analysis, the physicochemical characterization of thermal water, and the research of thermostable enzymes with possible commercial uses.

Dr. Adelfo Escalante. Senior Researcher at the Department of Bioengineering and Biocatalysis, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IBt-UNAM). Current research areas: a) Metabolic pathway engineering in Escherichia coli PTS- and Pseudomonas chlororaphis to obtain overproducing derivatives of aromatic compounds of interest in fermentation systems. b) Adaptive evolution in the laboratory of Escherichia coli. c). Analysis of genetic, metabolic, and environmental microbial diversity focused on the search for genes of biotechnological interest using traditional Mexican alcoholic beverage pulque as a model.

Dr. Fernando Astudillo Melgar earned, from the University, a BS in Biochemical Engineering (2014) and a PhD in Biochemical Sciences (2024). He is on a research visit at the Laboratory of Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology of Microorganisms at the Institute of Biotechnology of UNAM. His research areas have been the search and evaluation of bio-controls for tomato plants; obtaining, purification, and identification of bioactive products. Currently, he is studying microbial diversity and dynamics of microorganism populations during the fermentation process of traditional beverages such as tuba and pulque.

Dr. Liliana Lizárraga-Mendiola is a civil engineer with a master's degree in Geological Sciences and a doctorate in Earth Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is a full-time research professor at the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo and teaches subjects in the Civil Engineering degree. Her areas of interest are urban hydrology, low-impact technologies, and the geochemical characterization of construction materials.

Gabriela A. Vázquez-Rodríguez is a chemical engineer and professor of environmental sciences and engineering at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo’s Chemistry Department (Mexico). She has a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies and a PhD degree in biotechnology from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse (France). She was visiting professor at Centre de Recherche de l’Eau de l’École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada). Her research concerns the development of green engineering solutions for urban water management and water treatment processes. She is also interested in political ecology, environmental humanities, and science popularization.

Dr. Hidalgo-Lara is a pharmaceutical chemical biologist at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1984), M.Sc. (1988), and Ph.D. from the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN) (1997). She was a visiting professor at the Department of Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton (1997-2000). She has been a full researcher at the Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, CINVESTAV-IPN, since 2002. Her research interests include the production, purification, and biochemical characterization of microbial enzymes for biotechnological applications. Recently, the research group has been working with fungal thermophilic enzymes involved in the hydrolysis of plant biomass for the revalorization of agro-industrial waste. She has been a member of the Mexican Extremophiles Society since 2017.

Dr. Claudia Coronel Olivares occupies a position at the Department of Chemistry in the School of Basic Sciences and Engineering, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. She earned her Master's and PhD degrees at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, working on Environmental Sciences. Her research work focuses on water bacteria prospecting, disinfection, resistant bacteria, and extremophilic microorganisms. She teaches environmental biotechnology and microbiology to undergraduate students.