Jenny Ruales

• Name: Jenny Ruales 
• Present job:  Principal professor (Level3, grade 8), department of Food Science and Biotechnology
• Coodinator of research group:  FOODOMICS of the Escuela Politécnica Nacional 
• Job address: Pasaje Andalucía and Alfredo Mena Caamaño, Campus J. Rubén Orellana. P.O.BOX 172759.  Quito-Ecuador.
• TEL: +593 2 2976 300, Ext. 4242; 
• E-mail (Job): jenny.ruales@epn.edu.ec
• Academic studies: Chemical engineer of  Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, 1983, Licentiate in Food Engineering. University of Lund, Sweden, 1991, Ph.D., University of  Lund, Lund,  Sweden, 1992.

Academic experience and research 

• Principal Professor of  Escuela Politécnica Nacional, since 1993, Quito, Ecuador: 
• Coordinator of the Ph.D. programme in Food Science and Technology, since of Escuela Politécnica Nacional, from 2015
• Visiting Professor of Universidade Federal of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina,  Brazil, since 1997 to 2000.
• International coordinator of the Ibero-American cooperation of CYTED in the area of Food treatment and conservation: 1999-2005.
• Executive President of the LATINFOOD network for Latin America, sponsored by the International Science Programme (ISP) of Sweden
•  Member of the scientific commite of the International Science Programme (ISP) of Uppsala University, Sweden since 2017.
• Member of the Ecuadorian Academic of Science
• Focus point of Ecuador for  WOMEN FOR SCIENCE, in IANAS