Alfredo Aires
Alfredo Aires is an Auxiliary Professor in the Department of Agronomy at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) and a researcher in the Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), Agronomy Department, Vila Real, Portugal in the agronomic field. He was born Vila Real, Trás-os-Montes, Portugal at 23 of March of 1973. Accomplished the Course of Agricultural Engineer with 15 values in 20, in January of 1997 at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal. In the same university, in March 2004, he obtained an MSc Degree in Horticulture and Ornamental Plants, and later in December 2009, got a Ph.D. degree in Agronomical Sciences with the Thesis entitled 'Bioactive compounds in Brassicaceae plants and its effect on human Health”. Until now, Alfredo Aires has h-índex in Scopus and in Web of Science/ISI 20. The actual main research interests are plant and crop composition; primary and secondary metabolites; polyphenols, glucosinolates agro-food byproducts and wastes valorization; Extraction and purification methods; antioxidant activities, antimicrobial properties, and HPLC quantification.