Mª Dolores Cabezudo Ibáñez

Born in Madrid, 1935. The Spanish Civil War obliged her family to move to Brihuega (Guadalajara) and once the war was over, she moved to Zaragoza. It was in this city where she studied Chemical Sciences. Once she finished her studies, she moved to Madrid, where she began her research career. Her access to research came when she met Dra. Concepción Llaguno Marchena, from CSIC, who volunteer to help her with the Industrial Fermentations department director, José Garrido Márquez. Lola Cabezudo finished her doctorate in 1967 while she was working as director of the Colegio Universitario Isabel de España. Her thesis dealt with metabolism of certain vine yeasts in aerobiosis. Later, her postdoctoral period took place in the Department of Viticulture and Enology of the University of California, in Davis (USA), under the direction of Prof. Mainard A. Amerine.

Since her postdoctoral period, she carried out her research work in CSIC and precisely in Instituto de Fermentaciones Industriales (CSIC) in the Dr. Llaguno team, to which she was a member for 25 years and where she developed all of her first part of her scientific career. In 1986 she was appointed research professor.

Since 1988 to 1989, she combined her CSIC research professor work with tasks linked with associate professor to Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM). In this University, Lola established the basis and is author of curricular program of Food Science and Technology career, for which she was inspired by existing curricula in surrounding countries (France, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Italy and Turkey) and in the degrees of North-American universities. In 1994 there was surplus in CSIC and she obtained by competitive examination the Cátedra de Universidad de la especialidad de Tecnología de Alimentos, becoming exclusively a member of UCLM until September 2006, when she retired.

Scientific and technological contributions:

Her main scientific and technological contributions are framed in the disciplines of analytical chemistry (design and construction of mixed phase columns for gas chromatography), in the oenological sciences (characterization of grape juice and wines of native and foreign varieties, identification of yeast strains of oenological interest, selection of "flower" yeasts, influence of processing techniques on the quality of wines), as well as food sensory analysis (application of the statistical processing of sensory data). Her fruitful research output has been reflected in more than 150 scientific publications of which Lola Cabezudo is author or co-author, most of them in international publications with a high impact index. In addition, she has participated in and presented scientific contributions to countless national and international specialized congresses and symposia. She has also been a main researcher in a total of 22 research projects funded by international organisations (EU), central or regional government, as well as in more than a dozen projects financed by private companies or foundations. She is also part of the three patents inventor team.

National and international recognitions:

Lola Cabezudo has been a co-founder of the specialized group of of Chromatography and Related Techniques (GCTA) of Real Sociedad Española de Física y Química (the Royal Spanish Society of Physics and Chemistry) and has been a member of the committees of prestigious international and national associations, such as the International Organization of Standards, the Fullbright Scholarship Commission for Spaniards, the NATO Steering Group Science for Stability and l’Office International de la Vigne et du Vin. She has also served on the Governing Board of the Association of Brewers and Malta and on the Sensory Analysis Commissions of IRANOR and AENOR, as well as on the scientific committees of several international symposiums related to chromatography, oenology and food sciences.

She has also been recognized with a large number of distinctions, such as the Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen “La Mancha” (2000 year), la Mención Honorífica de la 2ª edición de la Feria FENAVIN (2003) and la Medalla de Oro de la Federación Española de Asociaciones de Enólogos (2005). She has also been awarded the Gabriel Alonso de Herrera Prize by Junta de Comunidades de Castilla La Mancha (2007). Later on, she was awarded the Insignia de Oro y Brillantes de la Asociación Nacional de Químicos de España (ANQUE). In addition, since her retirement in 2006, other distinctions she has received have been the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en la Investigación y en la Docencia Universitaria (the Gold Medal for Merit in Research and University Teaching) imposed by Minister Pedro Duque (B.O.E. 3 May 2019), the appointment as Hija Adoptiva de Castilla La Mancha (May 31^st, 2019) or the Medalla de la Academia de Gastronomía de Castilla La Mancha, delivered by its president, José María Sanromán del Águila.

María Ángeles del Pozo Bayón,Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Alimentación.(CIAL-CSIC)