Research group
Food Quality and Technology
Position
Researcher
Elisabete Coelho completed her PhD in Chemistry in 2010/12/15 and BSc in Chemistry - Branch Biochemistry and Food Chemistry in 2001/09/11 both by Universidade de Aveiro. She is Researcher at Universidade de Aveiro. Published 59 articles in journals. Has 6 book chapters, 2 patents registered, and organized 17 events. She supervised 3 Pos-doctoral students, 2 PhD theses and 7 are ongoing, and supervised 30 MSc dissertations and co-supervised 8, 26 works of BSc and co-supervised 8. Has received 14 awards and/or honors. Participated as Pos-doctoral Fellow in 3 projects, she was Principal investigator in 1 R&D FCT project, and is local coordinator of 1 R&D FCT project, she participate or participated as Researcher in 21 R&D projects. Works in the areas of food chemistry, polysaccharides structure, and by-products valorisation. Recently, her research activities have been focused on structural characterization of soluble dietary fibers, on polysaccharide and oligosaccharide structure-function relationship in development of food products with prebiotic activity.
Representative Publications
Waste mitigation: From an effluent of apple juice concentrate industry to a valuable ingredient for food and feed applications
10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.109
Microwave superheated water and dilute alkali extraction of brewers' spent grain arabinoxylans and arabinoxylo-oligosaccharides
10.1016/j.carbpol.2013.09.003
Covalent connectivity of glycogen in brewer's spent yeast cell walls revealed by enzymatic approaches and dynamic nuclear polarization NMR
10.1016/j.carbpol.2023.121475
Industrial byproduct pine nut skin factorial design optimization for production of subcritical water extracts rich in pectic polysaccharides, xyloglucans, and phenolic compounds by microwave extraction
10.1016/j.carpta.2024.100508
Structural differences on cell wall polysaccharides of brewer's spent Saccharomyces and microarray binding profiles with immune receptors
10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.120325
