Maria Palazuelos Jorganes, Ph.D., is Associate Vice President for Research Compliance at Temple University where she leads the division of Research Integrity, Security, and Compliance. Maria started her career as scientist but soon transitioned to research administration specializing in ethical and integrity related compliance. She oversees the teams and systems across the university that support research compliance with ethical principles and regulatory requirements across institutional review committees, conflict of interest and commitment issues, research security, research integrity and misconduct, and education in Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) topics broadly.