Dr. Merichel Plaza

Merichel Plaza is a Ph.D. Assistant Lecturer of Analytical Chemistry (Universidad of Alcalá, UAH) and member of the (Micro)-Separation Techniques research group. She received her Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology at the Autonóma University of Madrid in 2010 and carried out 5 year-research at the Department of Chemistry in Lund University, Sweden. Her main research interests focus on the study and characterization of new bioactive compounds, including the development of new advanced extraction and analytical methods to obtain and characterize interesting food-related compounds. Also, she is involved in developing metabolomics strategies to identify biomarkers of plant and food aimed to point out chemical evidence related to biological researches. She is co-author of more than 50 Science Citation Index research papers, 3 articles in non-SCI-journals, 13 book chapters in the top-level international publishers, and 9 conference proceedings. She has obtained the Young Researchers 2018 Award from the UAH.