Ursula Gonzales-Barron, a Peruvian-Irish national, is a Food Engineer (Honours graduated) with a PhD in Biosystems Engineering from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Chemical Engineering in the University of Manchester (UK), she became Senior Researcher at UCD (2006-2012), and is currently Principal Investigator at the CIMO Mountain Research Centre, IPB, Portugal. She leads the Food Quality and Safety Analytics research team, made up of 10 young researchers. Her current research focuses on predictive microbiology, meta-analysis, microbial risk assessment, sampling plans and Bayesian statistics. She is also a Visiting Professor at the PhD Programme in Food Science at the National Agricultural University La Molina, Peru. She has published 120 peer-reviewed articles, has disseminated her work at >50 international conferences, and has taught/organised 17 international symposia/workshops. She has published with ~100 co-authors and her work has been cited over 1000 times. She currently acts as Editor of the Journal LWT, Editor of the MDPI Topical Collection Food Modelling, Associate Editor in the Portuguese Journal Revista Portuguesa de Zootecnia, Review Editor of the Frontiers Food Process Design and Engineering, and on the Editorial Boards of the journals Microbial Risk Analysis, MDPI Foods and MDPI Applied Microbiology. She also acts as Secretary of the International Committee on Predictive Modelling in Food (ICPMF), and Expert Member in the WG19 “Microbiology of the Food Chains” of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Dr. Gonzales-Barron speaks fluently English, Portuguese and Spanish.