I am a PhD student at Olivier Van Aken Lab working on producing insect sex pheromones in plants. I come from Mexico where I obtained an engineering degree in Biotechnology. Later I moved to the Netherlands where I got a MSc in Plant Biotechnology from Wageningen University. In my spare time I like to play football, music and to cook Mexican food.

As for my research interests, I am very enthusiastic about applied science projects related to plant biotechnology. It is a fact that one of the challenges for the future will be to produce sufficient food in a sustainable way for a growing population. I believe that plant biotechnology is one of the tools that will help us to achieve this along with molecular plant breeding. In my PhD project we are exploring the use of engineering insect pheromones into different plant species as an strategy for pest control.