Researcher Profiles:
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Target Sectors/Organisations |
Plants, traditional knowledge, agroecosystems and new trends in rural development. Flora diversity, traditional plant use, management and conservation. Interdisciplinary study of plants and human cultures, including past and present relationships between people and environment. Management and conservation of plant genetic resources. Medicinal plants, wild edibles, local food and medicine, nutraceuticals and mediterranean food. Safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, valorization of underutilized and underexploited plants and crops and impacts in rural development. +INFO. |
Authorities and institutions for biodiversity management and conservation; Educational and promotional initiatives on sustainable agriculture and rural development; Institutions and networks linking cultural heritage and new approaches for rural development. |
Chemistry of natural products: extraction, identification, fractionation and isolation of chemical compounds in natural matrices (focused on food matrices). Chromatographic and spectrometric techniques: GC-FID, GC-MS, HPLC-DAD, HPLC-RI, HPLC-FL, LC-MS, NMR. Nutraceuticals and functional foods: development of nutraceuticals and innovative food formulations with functional properties. Evaluation of antioxidant properties by chemical and biochemical assays with animal cells. Evaluation of antitumor properties though screening in human tumor cell lines, cell cycle and apoptosis analysis; Hepatotoxicity assays. Incorporation of natural extracts/fractions/compounds (free or protected) in food formulations. Technology of natural products: emergent technologies for conservation of food matrices (guaranteeing food quality, safety and security). Gamma and electron beam irradiation of food products. Application of natural preserving ingredients. +INFO. |
Agro-Food Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Cosmetics Industry. |
Development of new products, namely fermented, development of probiotics, natural products for food preservation, determination of the nutritional and bioactive properties (antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumoral and action mechanisms) of natural and synthesized products, development of electrochemical sensors to assess the physicochemical properties of food, evaluation of food safety and quality. +INFO. |
Food and Pharmaceutical Industries; Catering companies; Companies of food transaction. |
Intelligent systems on a chip: creating intelligent algorithmic solutions suitable to run on inexpensive microprocessors. This approach allows us to develop standalone devices that show intelligent behaviors and help in the daily tasks, saving energy or giving support to the elderly people. +INFO. |
Health sector; Electric power companies; Communications companies. |
Econometric methods, promoting the evaluation of labor market policies, the market of health and the promotion of businesses policies and regional development policies. Acting on reality implies its knowledge. Only then is it possible to design and promote policies and measures that act on reality and could be effective in that role. +INFO. |
Consultancy agencies and companies; Employment Centres; Healthcare institutions; Development agencies. |
Organic horticulture: plant physiology, nutrition and crop protection. Technology: climatic conditions and ecology. Social and therapeutic horticulture. +INFO. |
Farms; Horticultural production organizations; Social farms and care organizations (disabled, children, elderly, others). |
Electrochemical sensors for food analysis and health applications: development of new portable potentiometric and voltammetric multi-sensor devices for cost-effective, fast and in-situ applications. Qualitative (PCA and LDA), semi-quantitative and quantitative (MLRM and PLS) analysis: honey classification according to its colour and pollen profile, dentification of goat milk adulterations with bovine milk, juice level evaluation in non-alcoholic beverages, semi-quantitative and quantitative analysis of soft drinks, gliadins semi-quantitative detection in foodstuffs, quantification of 2,4,6-trichloroanisole at ppt level in aqueous industrial cork solutions, development of aptasensors for detection of protein biomarkers for tumor activity assessment. +INFO. |
Food industry and retailers: authentication and/or adulteration evaluations; Health sector: early detection of tumor activity. |
Performance assessments, data mining, data analysis and statistic methods and demand planning. +INFO. |
Health, Retail, Energy, Mobility and Manufacturing. |
Polymer reaction engineering: experimental and theoretical studies with linear/non-linear polymerizations: free radical polymerizations involving transfer to polymer, terminal double bonds/multifunctional monomers, ionic polymerizations of multifunctional monomers, coordination polymerizations with crosslinking and terminal branching. Synthesis, characterization, testing of polymer networks and gels. Controlled radical polymerization (NMRP, ATRP, RAFT): batch, semi-batch and continuous reactors (micro-reactors), characterization of the products using Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) with refractive index (RI) and Multi-Angle Laser Light Scattering (MALLS) detectors. Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) Spectrophotometry with Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR): FTIR-ATR. Assessment of hydrogels/molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs)/interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN) for controlled drug release and biomolecules immobilization. +INFO. |
Chemical Industries; Pharmaceutical Industries; Environmental Industries. |