Edelmira Valero received her PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Murcia, Spain, in 1990. Since November 1986 she is a member of the Physical Chemistry Department at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. She is currently an associate professor of Physical Chemistry in the School of Industrial Engineers of Albacete (Spain).

      Her research interests include enzyme kinetics, enzymatic inhibition, computer simulation of biochemical pathways, substrate cycling, zymogen activation processes, enzyme cascades, oxidoreductase enzymes: polyphenol oxidase, peroxidase and laccase. During the last years, Prof. Valero has focused her research on studying the kinetics of different biological mechanisms of response amplification against a signal. In particular, she has worked on the activation of pepsinogen and plasminogen, on the activation of zymogens in the presence of different inhibitors and on different models of substrate cycling such as a ternary cycle between adenine nucleotides and a model for double substrate cycling for the highly amplified ADP (and/or ATP) quantification. Her current research focuses on the simulation of the dynamic behaviour of the glutathione-ascorbate redox cycle in chloroplasts and on the study of new possible applications of oxidoreductase enzymes. All of this research is supported by several projects, the main researcher of them being Dr. Valero.