Inês LuÃs
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia-UNL, Portugal
Biography
Inês Luís started her academic training in Biochemistry, moved on to Production Technologies and Agro-Industrial Transformation and presently she is in the Doctoral Program in Agroindustrial Technologies. Her work focuses on biofortification of staple crops, mainly on the foliar applications of Zn in bread wheat. She fosters ways of delivering food to populations with mineral deficiencies in order to provide an increase in the quality of human health. Moreover, this work enables her to develop new functional food alongside the creation of competitive food products. In her daily work, she contacts with spectrometry techniques related to mineral quantification and localization, techniques related to the quality of the wheat and she also monitors the conservation of wheat through time.