Short c-vitae: Dr. Alejandro Cifuentes is a Full Research Professor at the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL), belonging to the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC), Madrid, Spain and head of the Laboratory of Foodomics. He has been Director of the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL) and Deputy Director of Institute of Industrial Fermentations (CSIC) during the period 2007-2010. He is Director of the Platform of Metabolomics at CIAL belonging to the CEI-UAM+CSIC. He is Editor of Electrophoresis and TrAC-Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Editor of the Section on Foodomics of the journal Current Opinion in Food Science, and member of the Editorial Boards of other 11 international journals including Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Separation Science, Food Analytical Methods, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Heliyon, etc. During his career, Dr. Cifuentes has been responsible for training more than 40 people including doctoral and postdoctoral students, M.Sc. students and technicians from Spain and abroad. He has also participated as invited lecturer, scientific committee member or organizer in more than 190 courses and symposia arranged by different national and international institutions from Asia, Europe, America and Oceania. His running research lines include: Foodomics: developing new -omics- approaches in Food Science related to diet, colon cancer and Alzheimer; Detection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs, transgenic foods) and food pathogens using PCR techniques combined with capillary gel electrophoresis-laser induced fluorescence; Capillary electrophoresis and capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry applied for food quality and food safety; -Chiral molecules as food-quality markers analyzed by capillary electrophoresis and  Characterization of functional ingredients from natural sources (plants, alga and microalga) by capillary electrophoretic (CE) and chromatographic techniques (HPLC, GC and MS) as well as by in vitro assays.

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Important publications:

1. Pérez-Sánchez, A.; Barrajón-Catalán, E.; Ruiz-Torres, V.; Agulló-Chazarra, L.; Herranz-López, M.;  Valdés, A.;  Cifuentes, A.;  Micol, V. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) extract causes ROS-induced necrotic cell death and inhibits tumor growth in viv. Scientif Reports v.9, p.808, 2019.

2. Alvarez-Rivera, G.; Ballesteros-Vivas, D.;Parada-Alfonso, F.; Ibañez, E.; Cifuentes, A. Recent applications of high resolution mass spectrometry for the characterization of plant natural products. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry v. 112, p. 87-101, 2019.

3. Ballesteros-Vivas, D. Álvarez-Rivera, G.;Ibáñez, E.; Parada-Alfonso, F.; Cifuentes, A. A multi-analytical platform based on pressurized-liquid extraction, in vitro assays and liquid chromatography/gas chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry for food by-products valorisation. Part 2: Characterization of bioactive compounds from goldenberry (Physalis peruviana L.) calyx extracts using hyphenated techniques. Journal of Chromatography A v. 1584, p. 14-154, 2019.