Ana Luísa Almaça da Cruz Fernando

PhD

Associate Professor, DCTB - Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologia da Biomassa (ex-GDEH)
Researcher, MEtRICS - Centro de Engenharia Mecânica e Sustentabilidade de Recursos

Former affiliation

Researcher, UBIA - Unidade de Biotecnologia Ambiental

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9270-3982

Emailala@fct.unl.pt

719 Citations
14 h-Index

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Personal profile

Research interests

Sustainablity of Energy crops production. Food Packaging. Food Quality. Food Safety. Food Technology.

Personal information

Associate Professor at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Researcher at MEtRiCS, Mechanical Engineering and Resource Sustainability Center, hosted by Universidade do Minho and Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She has been working with energy crops for more than 25 years, with special interest on studies related with the sustainability of energy crops production (use of marginal land; efficient use of water and mineral resources; environmental impact assessment studies to detect options for systems improvement). Parallel to those activities, she has also been working in the field of Food Technology and Safety, by testing natural compounds extracted from plants into biopolymers for food packaging or as additives for food preservation.

Education/Academic qualification

Environmental Sciences, Doctorate, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT)

… → 2015

Food Technology, Master, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT)

… → 1996

Applied Chemistry, Bachelor, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT)

1985 → 1990

Keywords

QD Chemistry
S Agriculture (General)
Energy crops
Food technology
TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Environmental Risk Assessment
phytoremediation
Food packaging
Bioenergy

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Research Output at NOVA 1995 2019

719 Citations
14 h-Index
56 Conference contribution
34 Article
23 Other contribution
10 Chapter
19 More

11 Citations (Scopus)

Activity of chitosan-montmorillonite bionanocomposites incorporated with rosemary essential oil: From in vitro assays to application in fresh poultry meat

Souza, V. G. L., Pires, J. R. A., Vieira, É. T., Coelhoso, I. M., Duarte, M. P. & Fernando, A. L., 1 Apr 2019, In : Food Hydrocolloids. 89, p. 241-252 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Bentonite

Essential oils

Poultry

Meats

rosemary

Antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of novel biocomposites incorporated with essential oils

Souza, V. G. L., Ferreira, L. S., Rodrigues, C. P., Pires, J. R., Duarte, M. P., Coelhoso, I. M. & Fernando, A. L., 1 Jan 2019, In : European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings. p. 1083-1086 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article

biocomposites

Essential oils

essential oil

Antioxidants

films (materials)

1 Citation (Scopus)

In vitro bioactivity of novel chitosan bionanocomposites incorporated with different essential oils

Souza, V. G. L., Rodrigues, C., Ferreira, L., Pires, J. R. A., Duarte, M. P., Coelhoso, I. & Fernando, A. L., 15 Nov 2019, In : Industrial Crops and Products. 140, 111563.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

chitosan

montmorillonite

films (materials)

essential oils

ginger

5 Citations (Scopus)

Production of nanocellulose from lignocellulosic biomass wastes: Prospects and limitations

Pires, J. R. A., Souza, V. G. L. D. & Fernando, A. L., 1 Jan 2019, Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship. Veiga, G., Machado, J. & Soares, F. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 719-725 7 p. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; vol. 505).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Biomass

Mechanical properties

Petroleum products

Biodegradability

Biopolymers

4 Citations (Scopus)

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