Elena E. Stashenko is a Laureate Professor at the School of Chemistry of the Faculty of Sciences of the Industrial University of Santander (UIS), in Bucaramanga (Colombia). She is the General Director of the Center for Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry (CROM-MASS) and the Center for Research in Biomolecules (CIBIMOL), which are part of the National Center of Excellence CENIVAM. During the last 35 years she has directed undergraduate degree projects, specialization, Master's research works and Doctoral theses, in total, of more than 250 new professionals in Chemistry, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.Elena Stashenko and her collaborators have published more than 300 scientific articles in national and international indexed journals; she is the author of books on essential oils and their analysis, editor of books on aromatic plants, and has written more than ten chapters on essential oils, antioxidants, natural ingredients and their characterization, on bioeconomy and the value chain of aromatic plants, in freely accessible technical books and commercial books; she participated as an inventor, together with other researchers from the Industrial University of Santander, in the processes for obtaining 14 patents. Her work has been recognized through distinctions at UIS and awards in Colombia and abroad. Elena E. Stashenko was the founder of the National School of Chromatography (1998) in Colombia.