{"id":65754,"date":"2026-10-20T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/febio.es\/?post_type=cpt_team&p=65754"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:36:57","slug":"begona-ruiz","status":"publish","type":"cpt_team","link":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/speakers\/begona-ruiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bego\u00f1a Ruiz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bego\u00f1a Ruiz is a PhD Chemical Engineer with an MSc in agrofood biotechnology and more than two decades of experience in applied research, technological development, and innovation management within the agro-food and related sectors.<\/p>

Since January 2022, she leads the Technologies Unit at AINIA, overseeing multidisciplinary teams dedicated to ingredients and food development, biotechnology, packaging, circular economy, bioenergy, food law, consumer studies, and preclinical in vitro research, including industrial services based on supercritical CO\u2082 extraction.

Previously, she directed AINIA\u2019s Biotechnology Department, where she were responsible for industrial biotechnology, biogas and biorefineries, applied microbiology, microbiological modelling, omics technologies, and preclinical in vitro studies.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Before that, Bego\u00f1a headed the Bioassays Department, managing microbiological food analysis and research lines in biotechnology, applied microbiology, food safety, and in vitro preclinical methodologies.<\/p>

Her background also includes international research experience in anaerobic digestion for biogas production and environmental sample analysis.<\/p>

Bego\u00f1a serves as a Board Member at the BIOVAL Cluster, is a member of EJE&CON, and has completed executive programs at Esade and EDEM. She holds recent certifications in Responsible AI and AI & Innovation. Her work is complemented by scientific publications on food systems, sustainability, and policy interfaces.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technology Director at AINIA<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","cpt_team_group":[383],"class_list":["post-65754","cpt_team","type-cpt_team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cpt_team_group-organizadores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_team\/65754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65754"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_team\/65754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66375,"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_team\/65754\/revisions\/66375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cpt_team_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/febio.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_team_group?post=65754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}