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Dr. Vanessa M. Martos Núñez (female): Researcher responsible for the Project at the University of Granada, is an full professor at the Department of Plant Physiology and Deputy Head of the Mediterranean Centre (organizes courses throughout the academic year and more intensely during the summer months, an extensive program of courses, in different locations in the province of Granada and Ceuta and Melilla: A priority area is agroecology: demanded discipline among students and society in general). She was also Deputy Head of the Centre for Development Cooperation Initiatives (CICODE) at the University of Granada. Her research activities focus mainly on Sustainable Agriculture for Development, Development of molecular markers for the detection of abiotic stress resistance characters in durum wheat for the Mediterranean area, Definition of morphophysiological criteria of selection for the genetic improvement of cereals under Mediterranean environment, Ecophysiology of species of ecological value in Andalusia, Evaluation of agri-food products through spectral reflectance and Biotechnological processes for the preparation of inoculants of microorganisms, floor. Technologies based on renewable sources of phosphates and waste agroindustrial. Graduate in Pharmacy of the UGR (1998). Graduate thesis awarded special prize (2001). FPI grant from the Ministry of Education and Science to carry out doctoral thesis (2003), special prize for doctoral thesis. Teaching experience: in 4 degrees from 2000, Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmacy and Environmental Science. Doctoral courses in two programmes with mention of quality: Official Master´s in Biology for agriculture and aquiculture (and I have also been co-coordinator for the official postgraduate courses since 2004). Indicators of Scientific Production. More than 26 articles published in international ISI Journals on the fields of Particle and Agronomy. (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6442-7968) She participated and coordinates numerous projects (National and European) I have participated as a collaborating researcher: 8 with the Ministry of Science and Technology, reference numbers, more importats: AGF99-0611-CO3 (within the framework of this project I obtained my FPI grant) AGL2002-04285-CO3-02; AGL2006-09226-C02-02/AGR; CTM2011-27797; CTM2014-53186-R in one project of the Ministry of Education and Science on the infrastructure of scientific technology; in one European project (Commission of the European Communities, INCO-MED A3, project no. ICFP502A3PR03), in two project of excellence of the Andalucian Regional Government (P06-AGR-01495) and in two projects as PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER of the Ministry of Education and Science (AGL2005-07257-CO4-04) with University of Barcelona, IAS Córdoba, IRTA Lérida, Research agriculture centre of Turkey, from 2005 to 2008, and I have coordinated a PCI (Inter-University Cooperation Program) AECID (Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development) project with the Agronomy Faculty. University of Jordan, title “A new laboratory Plant Ecophysiology for the University of Jordan”. Evaluator of the Spanish National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (ANEP). Member of the Faculty of Science Board. Member of the University Senate. Outreach: Regular and active participation on many outreach activities mean to popularize science, promoted mainly from the Faculty of Science and the Scientific Culture Unit of the UGR: “Coffee with Science” (focused on high school students) (Spanish Foundation for science and technology, FECYT) since 2012. For 3 years I have organized a course of 8 months duration: Agroecology, Food Safety and Development Cooperation, at the Faculty of Sciences al the UGR.