Research group
Food Quality and Technology
Position
PhD student
Marta Silva is a registered nutritionist and research fellow in the FoodInteract research team at REQUIMTE/LAQV. Obtained her Bachelor Degree (2016) in Nutritional Sciences from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto, and her Master's Degree (2019) in Quality Control, with specialization in Food and Water, from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto and and PhD (2025) in Pharmaceutical Sciences - Nutrition and Food Chemistry specialization, from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto. Her research focuses on the comprehensive assessment of food (bioactive compounds, nutrients and food contaminants) through chemical analysis and literature searching techniques, and its relationship with health and with the environment.
Representative Publications
From data to insight: Exploring contaminants in different food groups with literature mining and machine learning techniques
10.1016/j.crfs.2023.100557
Fast and Reliable Extraction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Grilled and Smoked Muscle Foods
10.1007/s12161-018-1325-8
