Ana Novo de Barros

Ana Novo de Barros is an Assistant Professor with Habilitation from the University of Trá-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal. She has been the Director of the Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB) for 5 years (May 2017-July 2022) and of the Institute for Innovation, Capacity Building and Sustainability of Agri-Food Production (Inov4Agro) for one year and a half (January 2021-July 2022). She also worked in the research area of the cosmetic company Mesosystem. She is responsible for the Phytochemicals Laboratory, and the Coordinator of the Agri-Food Quality Group. Her research targets are mainly in the identification, separation, and recovery of functional molecules from different natural products, as well as their implementation as ingredients and bioactive compounds in food, with an ultimate goal to extract high added-value molecules and re-use them in the food chain (from agriculture to the consumer). In the last few years, she was awarded several prizes and distinctions. She has published over 100 scientific documents, including research articles, reviews, and editorials, within the highest impact factor journals in the Food Science and Technology field (h-index 28, SCOPUS, May 2023). She was the editor of 2 books and has written several book chapters. She has registered 8 national patents. She is an editorial member of Antioxidants and Frontiers and has Special Issues in Molecules and Antioxidants journals. At the moment, she is also a guest editor of several special issues in MDPI and IntechOpen. She has international collaborations and is a PI and member of several financed research projects with different typologies (over the last 5 years). She is the coordinator of the European project WASTELESS (TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-08). Her scientific work has raised interest and has led to the supervision of Post-doc (3 concluded, 1 ongoing), Ph.D. (11 concluded and 5 ongoings), Master (46 concluded and 7 ongoings), and Bachelor (51 concluded) students, as also more than 30 national and international Ph.D. students visitors in CITAB. Ana Novo de Barros has been a member of organizing committees of scientific conferences, presented invited lectures at international and national conferences, and has delivered over 400 oral/poster communications, including papers in conference proceedings. Ana Novo de Barros was a member of Ph.D. and Master Defenses and also has 26 years of teaching experience. She served as an international expert evaluator for Agência Nacional de Inovação. She assisted as an invited reviewer of several papers.