Food WG 1 Member, Structure of food raw materials, LINXS Fellow

Dr. Martinez-Sanz is a tenured scientist at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). She works at the Food Proteins group in the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL), where she investigates the structural changes of complex food matrices upon gastrointestinal digestion and the effects of nanostructure on protein digestibility and bioavailability. She is expert on the application of small angle scattering techniques (SAXS, SANS and USANS) and their combination with complementary methods such as X-ray diffraction, rheology, spectroscopy and microscopy. Along her career, she has applied scattering techniques to characterize the multi-scale architecture of plant cell walls, bacterial cellulose model systems, polysaccharides extracted from a variety of biomass sources (e.g. seaweeds, microalgae, agroindustrial waste, etc.), food proteins and food packaging materials.