Beatriz Ruiz PhD

Beatriz Sarriá Ruiz is qualified with a degree in Biology (1991) and a PhD in Biology (1998) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). She completed her Doctoral Thesis at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Science (CSIC-UCM), learning to determine mineral bioavailability using in vitro and animal models. As a post-doc fellow, she worked at the Institute of Food Research (Norwich, UK), with a CSIC-Royal Society fellowship (2 months) and a Marie Curie EU contract (2 years), where she learned stable isotope techniques to determine mineral bioavailability in humans. Having returned to Madrid she joined the research team “Minerals in Metabolism and Human Nutrition” at Instituto del Frio (IF-CSIC) and was granted an EU Marie Curie Reintegration project, starting Nutrigenetic studies, and an I3P postdoctoral contract for CSIC (3 years). In 2007, she formed part of the permanent staff of the Institute of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition (ICTAN-CSIC, formerly IF-CSIC) as a Tenured Technician.

Since 2009, she has worked in the group “Metabolism and Bioactivity of phytochemicals” (BIOCELL) looking into the health effects of consuming food rich in phytochemicals through human studies mainly, and studying the bioavailability of phytochemicals. Since 2019, she has had a contract as a Senior Researcher (Investigador Distinguido) and is a part-time lecturer at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, School of Pharmacy (UCM). She has participated in 26 national and 2 international research projects and 19 technological contracts supported by the food industry. She has co-authored 67 peer-reviewed articles and 7 book chapters. She has submitted 88 communications to national and international congresses (twice awarded). She holds an I3 certificate. She has supervised 3 doctoral theses and trained >15 undergraduate and graduate students. She has been invited to evaluate European projects and participates in science divulgation through projects, talks, and workshops.