Mercedes Careche Recacoechea

Dr. Mercedes Careche, Research Professor of CSIC. She obtained her PhD in Science by the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid in 1988. She was a postdoctoral visiting scientist (Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland 1988-1990) & Senior visiting scientist (University of Surrey, England 1994-1995) and performed shorter research visits to laboratories from Canada, Norway, Iceland, or Germany. Her research interests are centered in the quality and safety of seafood products, covering the study of the exposure risk to Anisakis, the mechanisms involved in quality changes and their relation to techno functional properties, and in the development of methods for evaluation of fish quality. She participated in several EU projects in the IV, VI and VII Framework Programmes (FP). In VI FP Integrated Project SEAFOODplus (2004-2008) she was Member of the Executive Management Team, Project leader of CONSUMERPRODUCTS, member of the Council and coordinator of the IPR pillar. She also acted as WP leader and member of the Steering Committee of PARASITE EU project, GA 312068, (2013- 2016), and as coordinator of the Spanish projects ANIDET and ANIRISK. She served as Scientific and Technical Coordinator of the Food Science and Technology Area within CSIC (FSTA) (2009-2012) and before as Deputy Coordinator of FSTA (2008- 2009) and as Deputy Director of the Instituto del Frío (2003-2006).  She was nominated CSIC expert in the Program Committee of KBBE Agriculture, Food and Biotechnology (2008-2012), Spanish representative in the Joint Programing Initiative‘A healthy Diet for a Healthy Life’(2009-2011), member of the WG on analytical techniques of the West European Fish Technologists Association (WEFTA) (2013-2019). Since 2019, the Spanish national delegate in WEFTA. In 2019 she received the WEFTA award given scientists who have contributed significantly and outstanding to the fields of seafood science and technology.