Ermides José Lozano Rivera

Ermides José Lozano Rivera is a lecturer and researcher at Universidad de Sucre. He is an agro-industrial engineer from that university, holds an MSc in Agri-food Sciences from Universidad de Córdoba and is a doctoral student in Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, on a doctoral scholarship from that institution.

His work has focused on obtaining yam starch and mucilage and using them as stabilisers in foods, on the use of agro-industrial by-products and on experimental design. He was an adviser to the Ondas programme at Corporación Universitaria del Caribe and took part in a technological innovation project for the cassava and yam starch industry. At INGEBIR he contributes to the valorisation of agro-industrial by-products.