Guillermo Reglero Rada
Professor
University Autonoma de Madrid
Spain
Biography
Guillermo J. Reglero Rada is Doctor in Chemistry (1985). Full Professor of Food Sciences at the University Autonoma de Madrid (1999) and Senior Researcher of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas, CSIC (on leave). He works in a research group on food and health. He has directed 5 projects of the National Plan of R&D, 3 projects Innpacto and 70 industrial projects in collaboration with companies. Since 2005 he has coordinated a Program of Activities in Technology funded in three calls for the Comunidad de Madrid and composed of groups of 10 research centers and hospitals. He has participated in projects of the EU Framework Program, as well as Consolider and Cenit Ingenio 2010 Programs. Currently he is involved in a project of the Strategic National Consortia Program Research (CIEN). He is author over 200 publications of international impact and 2 licensed patents in exploitation. In 2001 he received the "Archer Daniels" Award from the American Oil Chemists Society and in 2008 the Prize of the Spanish Society of GastrononÃa as Best Spanish Researcher in Food Science. Between 1993 and 1994 he worked as Technical of Industrial Projects for Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI). Between 2002 and 2006 he was the Manager of the Food Science and Technology Program of the National Plan of R&D. Between 2005 and 2010 he was a member of the Steering Committee of the UAM-CSIC Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Alimentación, CIAL. Currently he is the Director of IMDEA Food Institute.
Research Interest
food and health