(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

Current research work is focus on extraction and separation using green technologies such as supercritical fluids, microwaves and ultrafiltration applied for extraction of oils, phenolics, polysaccharides in several food and food-waste. Acrylamide monitoring and development of acrylamide mitigation strategies. Transforming industrial agrifood waste into by-products and co-products, reducing food waste in general. Development of polysaccharides-based vehicles for food and drug applications, based on structured aerogels and oleogels, nano-in-microparticles, and microparticles. Special interest in the pulmonary delivery, as coordinator of the scientific project “PulManCar – Microparticles design for active compounds pulmonary delivery using insulin as model” (2018-2022, 240 k€). In 17 years of scientific production, Cláudia Passos published 5 book chapters, 48 articles, with respectively 46% as the correspondent and 25% as the lead senior author in journals of international circulation, achieving 2292 citations, an h=23 and w=7 (n articles with citations n). Participated in scientific international and national congresses with 82 poster and 28 oral presentations (8 as invited) and additionaly 37 as co-author. The scientific performance has been achieved during a period that included a PhD in chemical engineering (finished 2010), and two post-doctoral grants in chemical engineering.