Education

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, UM, 1998

• Graduation in Food Engineering, ESB-UCP, 1994

Positions

• Assistant Professor, UM, 2001-

• Teaching Assistant, UM, 1998-2001

Teaching

• Thermodynamics (Biological Engineering Degree - 2nd year)

• Control & Instrumentation (Biological Engineering Degree - 4th year)

• Strategy of Process Engineering – Project (Biological Engineering Degree - 4th year)

• Research Project (Biological Engineering Degree - 5th year)

• Industry Training (Biological Engineering Degree - 5th year)

• Laboratory of Microbial Technology (Master on Biotechnology)

• Laboratory of Biotechnology (Master on Biotechnology)

Research

• Fermentation Engineering (high cell density systems, bioreactor design, pH control analysis)

• Ohmic heating (thermal processing of foods)

Selected publications

• Vicente, A.A., Castro, I. Novel thermal processing technologies. In: Advances in Thermal and Non-Thermal Food Preservation, Gaurav Tewari and Vijay K. Juneja (Eds.), Blackwell Publishing, Inc., Ames 2007 (ISBN 0-8138-2968-2).
• Vicente, A.A., Castro, I., Teixeira, J.A. Ohmic heating for food processing. In: Thermal Food Processing: Modeling, Quality Assurance, and Innovations, Da-Wen Sun (Ed.), CRC Press, New York 2006 (ISBN 1-57444-628-2).
• Ribeiro, C., Vicente, A.A., Teixeira, J.A., Miranda, C. Optimization of edible coating composition to retard strawberry fruit senescence – application in an industrial environment. Postharvest Biology and Technology (2007) (accepted).
• Reis, N., Gonçalves, C.N., Vicente, A.A., Teixeira, J.A. Proof-of-concept of a novel micro-bioreactor for fast development of industrial bioprocesses, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 95, 744-753, 2006.
• Pinto, D.B., Castro, I., Vicente, A.A. The use of TIC’s as a managing tool for food safety and traceability in the food industry, Food Research International, 39, 772-781, 2006.
• Brányik, T., Vicente, A. A., Dostálek, P., Teixeira, J. A. Continuous Beer Fermentation Using Immobilized Yeast Cell Bioreactor Systems, Biotechnol. Prog., 21, 653-663, 2005.
• Reis, N., Harvey, A.P., Mackley, M.R., Vicente, A.A., Teixeira, J.A. Fluid Mechanics and Design Aspects of a Novel Oscillatory Flow Screening Mesoreactor. Transactions of Institution of Chemical Engineers, Part A: Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 83(A4), 357-371, 2005.
• Klein, J., Maia, J., Vicente, A.A., Domingues, L., Teixeira, J.A., Juraščík, M. Relationships Between Hydrodynamics and Rheology of Flocculating Yeast Suspensions in a High-Cell-Density Airlift Bioreactor, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 89, 393-399, 2005.
• Reis, N., Vicente, A.A., Teixeira, J.A., Mackley, M.R., Residence times and mixing of a novel continuous oscillatory flow screening reactor, Chem. Eng. Sci., 59, 4967-4974, 2004.
• Castro, I., Macedo, B., Teixeira, J. A., Vicente, A. A., The effect of the electric field on important food processing enzymes: comparison of inactivation kinetics under conventional and ohmic heating, J. Food Sci. 69(9):C696-701, 2004.

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Last update: 09-Mar-2007

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