Liset Rodríguez Achata

Liset Rodríguez Achata (Cusco, 1978) is a chemist and professor, specializing in environmental management and sustainable development. Her research has focused on sustainability, actively participating in projects on the use of non-polluting technologies, such as the development of eco-friendly plastics and studies related to water quality.

Biography Liset Rodríguez Achata was born in 1978 in the San Blas neighborhood of Cusco, Peru. She pursued a degree in Chemistry at the National University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco (UNSAAC). She is a member of the coordination team of the UNAMD Scientific Collection of Ichthyofauna and has served as a consultant for the Ministry of Energy and Mines, contributing to the development of the Regional Energy Balance.

In the institutional sphere, she served as head of the Environmental Laboratory and Director of the Office of Quality Control and Laboratory Management at the National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the Amazonian Biodiversity Journal, published by the same academic institution. In the field of education, she advocates for environmental education in higher academic training.

In 2021, she advised a project focused on the assessment of surface water quality in urban areas of the Peruvian Amazon. In 2019, she collaborated with Inkaterra on the isolation, barcoding, and production technology of wild Amazonian fungi for their introduction into the gastronomic market in Tambopata.

In 2018, she worked with the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru on the production of graphene from Amazonian forest waste, and in 2019, on the development of eco-friendly plastics derived from biopolymers sourced from agroforestry residues.

In 2018, she was part of the team that presented the project "Recovery Systems for Areas Degraded by Alluvial Gold Mining Using Local Plant Species with Economic and Ecosystem Potential in Madre de Dios," funded by Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP–MINAM). In 2019, she collaborated with Dr. Omar Troncoso from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in the production of eco-friendly plastics using biopolymers derived from agroforestry waste.

Awards and recognitions On March 8, 2023, Rodríguez was recognized in the discussion panel "Challenges, Opportunities, and Perspectives for Women in Science" for her contributions to environmental research in the Amazon.

On December 12, 2022, she was one of the researchers honored in the Fifth Edition of the National Water Culture Award, "H2O Research 2021," granted by the National Water Authority (ANA) through Resolution No. 0403-2022-ANA.