António A. Vicente

Antonio Vicente graduated in Food Engineering in 1994 by the Portuguese Catholic University, in Porto, Portugal, and finished his PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering in 1998 by the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal. He has received his Habilitation in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Minho in 2010. From an early stage of his career he has kept a close contact with the food industry and he is involved in several research projects, both national and international, together with industrial partners either as participant or as project leader. Currently he has collaborations established in countries like Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, UK and US. His main research interests are: - food processing by ohmic heating/moderate electric fields (namely the study of the effects of electric currents on biomolecules and cells) - edible films and coatings for food products (chemical, physical and functional characterization) - nanotechnology applied to Food Technology (nano-multilayered films and coatings, nanoparticles and nanogels, all from food-grade materials) - fermentation technology (including design and operation of bioreactors). He supervised/is currently supervising 45 PhD theses; he has also supervised/is currently supervising several MSc theses and 20 post-doctoral fellows. He has published ca. 370 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals and ca. 30 book chapters in international books. He is presently Full Professor, Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Minho and Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal.