Kátia Gomes de Lima Araujo
Federal Fluminense University
Brazil
Biography
Kátia Gomes de Lima Araujo has a degree in Industrial Chemistry from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), MSc in Food Science and Technology at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, PhD in Plant Biotechnology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Postdoctoral at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas, Madrid and Spain. She is currently Associate Professor of Food Technology at UFF. She has experience in Food Science and Technology and other natural products with potential therapeutic and technological applications, mainly in the following areas: Production and use of antioxidants and natural pigments in food, biotechnological aspects of cultivation of microalgae and cyanobacteria and bioactive natural products.