Esperanza Martínez-Romero

Esperanza Martínez-Romero is a researcher and head of the Genomic Ecology Program at the Center for Genomic Sciences (CCG) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award in 2020.

Martínez-Romero studies the mutualistic symbioses of bacteria with Mexico's plants and animals using metagenomics and functional genomics approaches. She was a pioneer in the molecular study of the nitrogen fixing symbiosis of beans and the endophytes of corn and beans. She described new plant and insect bacteria from Mexico. Some of them are species of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The strains she obtained are deposited in official bacterial collections. Some of them are used as inoculants or biofertilizers in agriculture. She is a postgraduate professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she also studied. She has received several awards, including the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2020. She has published 243 scientific works that together gather more than 9500 external citations (SCOPUS). Provided by Wikipedia