Yolanda Gonzalez-Garcia
Universidad de Guadalajara, MEXICO
Biography
Yolanda González-García holds a PhD degree in Biotechnological processes and has her expertise in Industrial microbiology with special focus in bacterial biopolymers such as polyhydroxyalkanoates, exopolymeric substances, and bacterial cellulose. In 2007 she received the Ernst Mach grant from the Austrian Agency for International Mobility and Cooperation in Education and Research, for research exchange at the Graz University of Technology. She is titular researcher at the University of Guadalajara (Mexico) specifically at the Department of Wood, Cellulose and Paper, where studies the feasibility of using industrial wastes and by-product streams for the biotechnological production of value added-products.