**Miguel Fernando Ald´as Carrasco**

Miguel Fernando Aldas Carrasco (h-index 10—Scopus) has been a lecturer and researcher at the ´ Escuela Politecnica Nacional (Quito, Ecuador) since 2008. He actively collaborates with the Centro ´ de Investigaciones Aplicadas a Pol´ımeros (Center of Polymers Applied Research) (CIAP) and the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Agroindustry. He holds degrees in Chemical Engineering from Escuela Politecnica Nacional (Quito, Ecuador), a Master in Innovative Materials degree from ´ Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (Lyon, France), and a Doctorate in engineering from Universitat ´ Politecnica de Val ` encia (Valencia, Spain). He has worked under the direction of Prof. Juan L ` opez ´ Mart´ınez and Dr. Marina P. Arrieta, constituting a portion of the team of researchers at the Materials Technology Institute (ITM-UPV) at the Alcoy campus within the Development of Materials for Sustainable Structures (DEMES) group. His field of research concerns the use of natural additives for biopolymers and biodegradable materials, the development of thermoplastic starch-based materials, the study of the degradation of synthetic and biodegradable plastic materials, and the technology behind processing techniques.
