Forum global sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (Forum FSN)

Rosalina González Forero is consulting at FAO (UN) in the soil pollution area. She is Faculty and researcher at La Salle University in Bogotá Colombia, in this moment she coordinates the Environmental Studies Research Line at The Agroscience PhD Program and The Control and Prevention Soil Pollution Area of the Environmental Engineering Program. She was the Director of the Environmental and Sanitary Engineering Program at La Salle University until July of 2018. She worked at the Colombian National Police as a Criminal Investigator of Crimes against the Environment. She finished her Doctorate in ​​Civil and Environmental Engineering 6 years ago at University of Delaware and she has the title of master’s in environmental engineering of University of Catalunya and Master of Educational Technology from the Technological Institute of Monterrey. In addition, she has Specializations Courses in Management, Criminal Investigation and Pedagogy. She has participated in many research projects around the topics of Forensic Sciences, Environment and Education, which led her to obtain the Excellence in Research award in 2016 at the University of La Salle. For the last 10 years, her passion for social issues has been strengthened when she started volunteering with vulnerable populations at the María Luisa de Moreno International Foundation, the MIRA USA Organization and the Carvajal Support Unit, where she has actively participated in the welfare of the less favored communities. In addition, she has her seed research group where she is a promoter of young researchers, through the project Critical Zone Research Seedling. She is very proud of it, because it has more than a hundred students from different semesters and programs where the students in a voluntary way learn beyond the classroom helping people through the science. She is considered herself as attentive and helpful and thinks that her role in teaching aims to be a facilitator in the acquisition of skills so that students can more easily access the world in permanent change that surrounds them