dr.ir. M (Marta) Rodriguez Illera

Marta Rodriguez Illera is a scientist from Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (WFBR) at Wageningen University and Research. Her research focuses on supporting the transition to more sustainable and circular food processing chains with a link to food product quality and functionality by developing assessment tools and frameworks. Marta has broad experience both from industry and academia contributing to new process design, performing assessment and predictive models from detailed unit operations to chain modeling, covering aspects such as choice of technology, process settings, microbiological and nutritional quality predictions, process economics, and environmental impacts. With a focus on research, before WFBR she worked at several Dutch food research institutes: Nizo Foods Research and FrieslandCampina’s innovation center, and she obtained her PhD at the Food Processing Engineering Group of WUR. Before her food experience in the Netherlands, she studied Chemical Engineering in Spain at the University of Alicante with a Processes specialization at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.