Oscar Alfonso Vega Castro is a professor at the University of Antioquia-Campus Carmen de Viboral. He holds degrees in Agricultural Engineering from National University, an MSc in Food Technology, and a PhD in Engineering. His areas of expertise include unit operations and experiment design. Coordinator of the BIOALI research group. At the international level, he is a member of the academic committee of the SoFe (Society of Food Engineering), of the SIBIA (Ibero-American Society of Food Engineering), and of the IAEF (International Association of Engineers and Foods). He has published around 40 scientific articles in indexed journals and participated in around 45 international conferences. He was recently president of CIBIA XIII, the Ibero-American Congress of Food Engineering, held in Medellín. In 2014, he was the best professor at the University of Antioquia.