Marco Rito-Palomares
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. graduated in 1987 with a BSc in Food-Biochemical Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de La Paz, B.C.S. In 1989, he also earned a MSc in Chemical Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering at University of Birmingham
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in 1995. After working as a Postdoctoral researcher in Centre for Bioprocess Engineering at University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
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and University of Cambridge
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, he returned to Tecnológico de Monterrey as Full Professor of Bioprocess Engineering at the Centre for Biotechnology.
Marco Rito-Palomares has been honored with the Jubilee Award 2003 granted by the International Foundation for Science (IFS).
Rómulo Garza Award 2002, maximum research award of Tecnológico de Monterrey.
He is Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Foundation for Science (IFS), the prestigious Academia Mexicana de Ciencias and President of the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Nuevo León State Section.