Research group
Food Quality and Technology
Position
Academic Staff
Full Professor of the University of Aveiro (UA).
Professor of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, and Polysaccharides Chemistry.
Supervisor of 28 PhD students with concluded thesis,
Director of the BSc in Biochemistry of the Universidade de Aveiro, since 17/11/2006.
President of the Scientific Panel of Food Additives and Contaminants of the Food Chain of ASAE, the Portuguese Food Safety Agency, since 2008.
Editor in Chief of Carbohydrate Polymers (IF2023 = 10.7), Elsevier.
Principal research interests:
Food chemistry and biochemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, polysaccharides chemistry; volatile compounds; phenolic compounds, by-products valuation, circular economy.
Representative Publications
Transglycosylation reactions, a main mechanism of phenolics incorporation in coffee melanoidins: Inhibition by Maillard reaction
10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.01.107
