Ana C. Freitas
Ana C. Freitas is a food engineer. She received her PhD in biotechnology from the Catholic University of Portugal in 1999. Since then, she is assistant professor at the Instituto Piaget, Portugal. From 2011, she has also been a postdoctoral researcher at CESAM, University of Aveiro, Portugal. She was the principal investigator of the project PROBIOCAPS. Currently, her research is focused on the development of novel foods incorporating bioactive compounds derived from natural sources.