Octavio Paredes-López, Ph.D., is a biochemical engineer and food scientist, obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in biochemical engineering at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City, and later earned a master's degree in biochemical engineering at Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. He earned a PhD (1980) at the University of Manitoba, Canada, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science in 2005. He has authored over 300 publications in indexed journals, book chapters, and books and over 150 articles in newspapers in Mexico, USA and France. His h-index is 55.