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Research interests

• Solid-State fermentation (SSF)
• Production of biosurfactants
• Biological control
• Bioprocess engineering
• Treatment of organic wastes

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Professor J. Gerardo Saucedo-Castañeda completed the Bachelor of Food Engineering (1982) and a Master´s in Chemical Engineering (1987) at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa Campus. In 1991 he completed his Ph.D. at the University de Montpellier II, France. He carried out a postdoctoral stay (1992) at the ORSTOM Center (now IRD) in Montpellier. He is a Qualified Professor (2011) by the University of Aix Marseille, France.

He was the Postgraduate Coordinator during the foundation of the Doctorate in Biotechnology (1996), Head of the Department of Biotechnology (1998-2000), and Director of the Division of Biological and Health Sciences (2000-04).

He is an expert in bioprocess engineering of solid-state fermentation and transport phenomena in biological processes. His lines of research are the treatment of organic residues (municipal, agro-industrial, and forestry) for the production of biofuels, obtaining compounds with biological activities from agro-industrial waste, and production of biosurfactants by solid-state fermentation.

He has 74 international publications (JCR), five national publications (CONACYT), 19 book chapters, co-edition of a book, more than 300 participations in congresses; he has more than 1475 citations (Scopus), and an h factor of 22 and an i10 index of 44 (Google academic). He has directed more than 31 terminal projects for the Bachelor's degree, 10 Specialization, 16 Master's degree, and 12 Ph.D. He has 6 patents of which two were granted by the IMPI and one of them is in commercialization. He has been responsible for 22 sponsored projects. He has maintained scientific collaborations with different instances of the government as well as companies in the biotechnology and chemical sector.

Currently he is a professor at the UAM Iztapalapa Campus, Member of the Transversal Technological Academic Commission of the SNI (2016-18); Continuous member of the National Research System (Mexico, SNI) since 1987, President (2012-2014) and Vice President (2010-2012) of the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Named Distinguished Professor by the Academic College of the UAM in June 2017.

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Research interests

• Solid-State fermentation (SSF)
• Production of biosurfactants
• Biological control
• Bioprocess engineering
• Treatment of organic wastes

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
	Domínguez-Rivera, Á., Bibián-León, M.E., Saucedo-Castañeda, G. and 2 more (...) (2025).From Farm to Industry: Valorization of Agricultural Waste by Solid-State Culture for Sustainable Development. Agroindustrial Waste Management and Natural Resources Conservation: Environmental Challenges and Transformation Into Value-Added Products,25-50	\| 7\| 8\| 9\| 12 \|
OA	Martínez-Montiel, L., Fernández, F.J., Tovar-Gálvez, L.R. and 1 more (...) (2025).Variation in the bacterial and fungal communities over a three-year period at Mexico City’s largest operational-capacity composting plant. Revista Mexicana de Ingeniera Quimica,24(3)
	Méndez-González, F., Loera-Corral, O., Saucedo-Castañeda, G. and 3 more (...) (2025).Bioreactors to produce fungal biological control agents by solid-state fermentation. Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation: Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering,147-177
	Méndez-González, F., Favela-Torres, E., Nampoothiri, K.M. and 2 more (...) (2025).Online monitoring and modeling of solid-state cultures using respirometry. Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation: Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering,111-127
	Méndez-González, F., Loera, O., Saucedo-Castañeda, G. and 2 more (...) (2025).Improved packed bed column bioreactor to produce fungal conidia for biological control. Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing,5(2) 783-794	\| 2 \|
OA	Pacheco-Martínez, C.K., Saucedo-Castañeda, G., Rodríguez-Durán, L.V. and 2 more (...) (2024).THE POTENTIAL OF COFFEE (COFFEA ARABICA L.) PULP AND CACAO (THEOBROMA CACAO L.) HUSK AS A SOURCE OF PREBIOTICS, ANTIOXIDANTS, AND ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOUNDS. Carpathian Journal of Food Science and Technology,16(3) 79-89
OA	Estrada-Martínez, R.J., Favela-Torres, E., Soto-Cruz, N.O. and 2 more (...) (2023).Respiro-fermentative metabolism in yeast cultivated in solid-state culture: The Crabtree effect and ethanol production. Revista Mexicana de Ingeniera Quimica,22(1)
	Domínguez-Gutiérrez, G.A., Perraud-Gaime, I., Escalona-Buendía, H. and 5 more (...) (2023).Inhibition of Aspergillus carbonarius growth and Ochratoxin A production using lactic acid bacteria cultivated in an optimized medium. International Journal of Food Microbiology,404	\| 2 \|
	Valdés-Velasco, L.M., Favela-Torres, E., Théatre, A. and 3 more (...) (2022).Relationship between lipopeptide biosurfactant and primary metabolite production by Bacillus strains in solid-state and submerged fermentation. Bioresource Technology,345
	Espinosa-Salgado, R., Tamayo-Galván, V., Perraud-Gaime, I. and 5 more (...) (2022).Polyols Induce the Production of Antifungal Compounds by Lactobacillus plantarum. Current Microbiology,79(4)	\| 2\| 14 \|
	Martínez-Ruiz, A., Tovar-Castro, L., Aguilar, C.N. and 2 more (...) (2022).Sucrose Hydrolysis in a Continuous Packed-Bed Reactor with Auto-immobilise Aspergillus niger Biocatalyst Obtained by Solid-State Fermentation. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology,194(3) 1327-1339
	Méndez-González, F., Figueroa-Montero, A., Saucedo-Castañeda, G. and 2 more (...) (2022).Addition of spherical-style packing improves the production of conidia by Metarhizium robertsii in packed column bioreactors. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology,97(6) 1517-1525	\| 13 \|
	Pedraza-Segura, L., Rodríguez-Durán, L.V., Saucedo-Castañeda, G. and 1 more (...) (2021).Application of Microorganisms in Biosurfactant Production. Bioprospecting of Microorganism-Based Industrial Molecules,6-30	\| 9\| 15 \|
OA	Aguilar-Alvarez, M.E., Saucedo-Castañeda, G., Durand, N. and 3 more (...) (2021).The variety, roasting, processing, and type of cultivation determine the low OTA levels of commercialized coffee in Chiapas State, Mexico. Food Control,126
	Perraud-Gaime, I., Carralot, J.-P., Carboué, Q. and 2 more (...) (2021).Evolution of Physico-Chemical and Microbiological Parameters During Large-Scale Coffee-Pulp Silage. Waste and Biomass Valorization,12(11) 6057-6065
OA	Serratos, I.N., Avila-Paredes, H.J., Hernández-Reséndiz, I. and 7 more (...) (2021).Entrapment of chlorophyll from chlorella vulgaris and chlorella protothecoides into microporous silica synthesized by a sol-gel method. Journal of Physics Communications,5(10)
	Martínez-Ramírez, C., Esquivel-Cote, R., Ferrera-Cerrato, R. and 3 more (...) (2021).Solid-state culture of Azospirillum brasilense: a reliable technology for biofertilizer production from laboratory to pilot scale. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering,44(7) 1525-1538
OA	Banat, I.M., Carboué, Q., Saucedo-Castañeda, G. and 1 more (...) (2021).Biosurfactants: The green generation of speciality chemicals and potential production using Solid-State fermentation (SSF) technology. Bioresource Technology,320	\| 9 \|
	Méndez-González, F., Loera, O., Saucedo-Castañeda, G. and 1 more (...) (2020).Forced aeration promotes high production and productivity of infective conidia from Metarhizium robertsii in solid-state fermentation. Biochemical Engineering Journal,156	\| 2 \|
OA	Espinosa-Salgado, R., Saucedo-Castañeda, G., Monroy-Hermosillo, O. (2020).Composting a digestate from the organic fraction of urban solid wastes. Revista Mexicana de Ingeniera Quimica,191-8	\| 11\| 12 \|
OA	Jiménez-Rodríguez, J.E., Martínez-Valdez, F.J., Estrada-Martínez, R. and 3 more (...) (2020).Effect of incubation conditions on the aerobic pretreatment of the organic solid wastes and the volatile fatty acids production. Revista Mexicana de Ingeniera Quimica,19(3) 1027-1040	\| 11 \|

Courses taught by the professor in recent trimesters

*Courses are conducted in spanish

Num.	Trim.	Course Name	Level
1	25P	Temas Selectos en Ingeniería Química II	Posgrado
2	25P	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
3	25I	Trabajo Experimental XI	Posgrado
4	25I	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
5	24O	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
6	24P	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
7	24P	Trabajo Experimental X	Posgrado
8	24I	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
9	24I	Seminario de Informe Terminal	Posgrado
10	24I	Temas Selectos de Ingeniería Química IV	Posgrado
11	23O	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
12	23O	Trabajo Experimental IX	Posgrado
13	23O	Trabajo Experimental XII	Posgrado
14	23O	Seminario de Informe Terminal	Posgrado
15	23P	Trabajo Experimental XI	Posgrado
16	23P	Seminario de Informe Terminal	Posgrado
17	23P	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
18	23P	Trabajo Experimental VIII	Posgrado
19	23I	Paquete Tecnológico	Licenciatura
20	23I	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
21	23I	Trabajo Experimental VII	Posgrado
22	23I	Trabajo Experimental X	Posgrado
23	23I	Trabajo Experimental XII	Posgrado
24	22O	Trabajo Experimental XI	Posgrado
25	22O	Trabajo Experimental VI	Posgrado
26	22O	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
27	22P	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
28	22P	Trabajo Experimental V	Posgrado
29	22P	Trabajo Experimental IX	Posgrado
30	22P	Trabajo Experimental X	Posgrado
31	22I	Diseño de Reactores Biológicos	Licenciatura
32	22I	Trabajo Experimental VIII	Posgrado
33	22I	Seminario de Informe Terminal	Posgrado

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