Xochitl Dominguez Benetton

Xochitl Dominguez Benetton (born 23 July 1980 in Mexico City) is a Mexican scientist, graduated as a Doctor of Science at the Mexican Petroleum Institute in 2008.^{[citation needed]} She conducts research at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research since 2011.^[1]

Xochitl Dominguez Benetton
Xochitl Dominguez Benetton in 2019
Born	Xochitl Dominguez Benetton (1980-07-23) July 23, 1980 (age 45) Mexico City, Mexico
Education	National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (BS) Mexican Petroleum Institute (DSc)
Known for	Electrochemical engineering Gas-diffusion electrocrystallization Bioelectrochemistry
Scientific career
Fields	Electrochemistry
Institutions	Flemish Institute for Technological Research

She is the inventor^[2] of the gas-diffusion electrocrystallization process,^{[3][4][5][6][7]} which has been heralded as a Great EU-funded innovation^[8] by the Innovation Radar of the European Commission. She is renown in Mexico and Europe for her scientific and patenting activity in the domains of metal recovery from wastewater and synthesis of nanoparticles.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Honours

• She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers since 2011, holding the SNI II distinction since 2019.^[13]
• She received the award Distinguished Mexicans (in Spanish) in 2022, ^[14] which is the highest honour a Mexican can receive owing their outstanding trajectory abroad Mexico.