Gustavo is a fourth-year PhD Student from Honduras. He earned his B.S in Food Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2017, then worked as a FS and QA specialist for two years, subsequently starting his graduate school journey in Fall 2019

He has previously worked on developing a QMRA (Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment) for share tables in school cafeterias to predict the risk for norovirus cross-contamination on apples.

He is currently working on developing farm-to-consumer process models for leafy green and tomatoes. The goal of these process models is to assess the relative efficacy of conducting product testing at different process stages.

His hobbies are playing basketball, eating good food, trying and out new things like golf.