Paulo José do Amaral Sobral

Researcher: Prof. Paulo José do Amaral Sobral

Short bio

Paulo Sobral is Full Professor at “Universidade de São Paulo” (USP), Dean of the “Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering” (FZEA-USP), and Researcher of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), level 1A.  

He is teacher in “Physical-Chemistry of Foods” and “Mass Transfer” and his researches has been focused in drying of food, glass transition of freeze-dried pulps of tropical fruits, meat quality and edible and/or biodegradable films based on biopolymers, with 142 published papers ( h-index= 41). 

He is member of the Board of the “International Association for Engineering and Food” (IAEF) and member of Advisory Board of Iseki-Food Association (IFA).

He is also Associate Editor of the “International Journal of Food Studies” and member of the Editorial Board of “Food Engineering Reviews”, “PeerJ”, “Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos” and “Newsletters of IFA”, and Ad hoc Referee of CNPq, CAPES and FAPESP.

General Research interests

Edible film technology; Food drying; Technology of products of animal origin, Research in food science

Visiting period at DAGRI: 8 – 26 June 2019

Aims and activities related to the visit

Gaston’s visit is within the framework of the agreement between the University of Florence (DAGRI) and the Universidade de São Paulo”, Brazil.
During his visit he had meetings with the DAGRI academic staff aimed to consider the possibility of offering students courses leading to the a double degree (UNIFI/USP).

Research activities at DAGRI : Measurement of Food Related Emotions .
Collaborations  at DAGRI:  Giuliana Parisi