Jorgelina Ottado is an Agricultural Engineer, graduated from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the National University of Rosario. She completed her doctorate at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario at the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and she spent a postdoctoral stay in Trieste, Italy. She is currently Principal Investigator of CONICET and head of the Group of Microorganisms of Agronomic and Environmental Interest. Her group works on lines of research in applied microbiology aimed at solving agricultural and environmental problems. Among the topics that are developed are the studies of beneficial bacteria capable of promoting plant growth and bioremediating contaminants present in the environment such as metals, herbicides and industrial waste. For her work, she has been distinguished with different prizes. She is the director of the project “Building tools for the detection and bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate”.

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