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Elizabeth Troncoso Ahués is Chemical Engineer and M.Sc. in Food Technology from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH). She is Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM, Chile). She specializes in the areas of food digestion, and in particular on the fabrication of lipid-based food matrices with controlled bioavailability by using new in vitro digestion models with realistic performance as found in the human gastrointestinal tract. Troncoso received her Ph.D. Engineering Sciences (2013) at the Universidad Católica de Chile in Bioprocess and Chemical Engineering. Since 2017, she is the Research Director at the UTEM. In addition, she has published over 30 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals (with an H-index of 13 on Scopus), as well as book chapters and conference proceedings. Prof. Troncoso has previously received awards from the Grupo Bimbo, and Henri Nestlé in recognition of his scientific achievements. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT, Chile) and the food industry as principal investigator. In addition, since 2017 she is a permanent member of the technical committees of the FONDEF Program and the Formation of Advanced Human Capital Program, CONICYT.