Independent Researcher, Laboratorio de Microbiología de Alimentos. Departamento de Ciencias Básicas y Aplicadas. Universidad Nacional del Chaco Austral – CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas).

Marcela P. Castro, Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences (Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Food Engineer (Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina). She is an independent researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la República Argentina, CONICET) and a professor at Austral Chaco University (Universidad Nacional del Chaco Austral, Argentina). Her expertise is in designing, implementing, and managing research and training activities that focus on meat products microbiology and biopreservation, with major emphasis in culture design for industrial purposes. She has experience in technology transfer and science communication. She has published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and has actively participated in national and international conferences for three decades.