Alejandro Cifuentes's Biography

Alejandro Cifuentes, Director, Institute of Food Science Research

Dr. Alejandro Cifuentes is a Full Research Professor at the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) in Madrid. He has been Director of the Institute of Food Science Research and Deputy Director of the Institute of Industrial Fermentations, both belonging to CSIC. Alejandro's activity includes advanced analytical methods development for Foodomics, food quality and safety, as well as isolation and characterization of natural bioactive compounds. He holds different national and international awards, is member of the Editorial Board of 12 international journals (including J. Chromatogr. A, J. Pharm. Biomed., J. Sep. Sci. and Food Anal. Method.) and Editor of TrAC and Electrophoresis. He has published 200 SCI papers, 20 books and book chapters and 6 patents. His h index is 39 and his works have received more than 5000 citations (June-2013). He has defined for the first time in a SCI journal the new discipline of Foodomics.