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

530 Citations
12 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 1995 2019

530 Citations
12 h-Index
55 Conference contribution
33 Article
23 Other contribution
10 Chapter
18 More

5 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

2 Citations (Scopus)

18 Downloads (Pure)

Aided Phytostabilization of Mine Waste

Barbosa, B. & Fernando, A. L., 4 Jan 2018, Bio-Geotechnologies for Mine Site Rehabilitation. Elsevier, p. 147-157 11 p.

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

Open Access

File

mine waste

soil

revegetation

environmental degradation

environmental risk

Antioxidant Migration Studies in Chitosan Films Incorporated with Plant Extracts

Souza, V. G. L. D., Rodrigues, P. F., Duarte, M. P. & Fernando, A. L., 2018, In : Journal of Renewable Materials. 6, 5, p. 548-558 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Plant extracts

plant extract

Plant Extracts

Chitosan

Antioxidants

A toolbox to tackle the technological and environmental constraints associated with the use of biomass for energy from marginal land

Gomes, L., Fernando, A. L. & Santos, F., 1 Jan 2018, ECOS 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems. UMDGEO - Department of Geography of University of Minho

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

environmental constraint

Biomass

biomass

energy

Soils

4 Citations (Scopus)