Dr. Jorge Soriano Santos is a Biologist Pharmaceutical Chemist by the UNAM Faculty of Chemistry, where he also obtained his Master's Degree in Food Science. In 1989 he obtained the Gabino Barreda medal that UNAM awards to the most outstanding students in their studies. In March 1991 he obtained the degree of Ph.D. (Dr. in Food Chemistry) from the Faculty of Agriculture of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.

He currently works in the Biotechnology Department of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus. He has been Head of the Biotechnology Department, Head of the Food Area and of the Macromolecule Biochemistry Area, Coordinator of the program in Food Engineering and Academic and Divisional Counselor at the same Institution.

He belongs to the National System of Researchers of CONACyT. He has directed thesis of Bachelor, Master and Doctorate, participated in National and International Congresses and published several papers and research chapters in different specialized journals and books. He has also managed to patent part of his laboratory work.

His lines of research are focused on protein chemistry, protein isolation, characterization, and purification (with and without enzyme activity); Obtaining nutraceutical, nutricosmetic and cosmeceutical compounds from amaranth, mistletoe and agro-industrial waste for the development of functional foods. This line of research led him to win the 2010 national call for nutrition projects organized by Kellogg's Institute of Nutrition and Health with the proposal of the biochemical study of amaranth antihypertensive peptides, and in 2013 and 2018 he has won the “Christopher Augur ”awarded by the UAM, through the postgraduate course in Biotechnology, for the high academic quality of its research.