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Curriculum vitae, Professor María José Ruiz. María José Ruiz Leal is graduated in Pharmacy by the University of Valencia (UV; 1992) and hold her PhD in Pharmacy with European certification from the University of Valencia (1997). Since 1998 she has held various teaching positions, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Senior Professor and Full Professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine in the UV. She is European Registered Toxicologist (ERT) since 2018. She is the academic coordinator of the Master Degree in Food Quality and Safety at the UV (since 2023). She has published more than 140 scientific articles in SCI journals and 15 international book chapters, as well as more than 200 contributions to Congresses. She has participated in about 20 research projects (international, national and regional), being responsible for 8 of them. She is the director the research group at UV RiskTox (www.uv.es/risktox). She has supervised 11 doctoral theses with mention of quality 'Food Science' (program code 3005) and 30 master's theses. She has 4 sexenium (last one achieved in January 2021). She has developed her teaching and research activity at UV since 1998. She completed a pre-doctoral stay at the Laboratory of Genetic Toxicology at the Institute Pasteur of Lille (France, 1996; 3 months). And several postdoctoral stays, at the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Nursing of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of León (2001, 4 months), the Department of Environmental Molecular Toxicology of the Institute of Aquaculture of the University of Stirling in Scotland (2002; 6 months) and at the School of Life Sciences at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná in Brazil (2021; 2 months). She is team leader of the research group 'mechanistic toxicology of chemical substances by applying in vitro methods' since 2002. The main research lines are focused on the development of alternative methods for determining toxic effects of organic contaminants and their metabolites, as well as evaluation of food safety and quality. All this has allowed that in recent years her research is oriented on the one hand towards the study of emerging compounds and their metabolites present or produced in vitro in different types of cells and in vivo. With respect to management, she held the positions of Head of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Sciences, Toxicology and Forensic Medicine (2015-2021). She has been a member of the Commission for the Development of Study Plans (CEPE) of the new Degree in Food Science and Technology of the UV as established by the European Higher Education Area (EEES). She is member of the Senate and the Governing Council of the UV, and member of the Center Board of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the UV. Secretary of the Academic Title Commission (CAT) of the Degree in Pharmacy; Expert of the National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight (ANEP) for the review process of research projects (2017-present), member of the Andalusian Agency for Scientific and University Quality (ACCUA), evaluating member of the FWO Research Foundation Flanders (2020) and member of the external advisory board of the UCIBIO (Research Unit in Applied Molecular Biosciences of the NOVA Universities of Lisbon and Porto, 2024). President of the Spanish Association of Toxicology (AETOX; since 2022), Vice-president of the Spanish Association of Toxicology (AETOX; 2014-2022), chair of the Register of Toxicologist (AETOX-EUROTOX, 2016-2022), Treasurer of the AETOX (2007-2014), chair of the Education section in AETOX (2007-2014). She is also a member of the Scientific Committee on Food Safety and Nutrition of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN; 2017-2022). Moreover, she is editorial Board Member of the 'Revista Española de Toxicología' and the Journal 'Toxicology Mechanims and Methods' (Francis & Taylor). Reviewer 'ad hoc' for 10 scientific journals included in the ISI 'Web of Knowledge' (Food Cheml Toxicol, Toxicol Lett, Toxicol in vitro, Toxins, J Appl Toxicol, Toxicol Mech Meth, etc.). She is Member of the AETOX (since 2001) and the European Society of Toxicology in vitro (ESTIV; since 2003)..