Lillian Barros, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Associate editor, Food & Function

Valorisation of agrofood residues to obtain natural ingredients for food, cosmetic, and agriculture applications

Lillian Barros is an assistant researcher at the Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança and vice-coordinator of CIMO. She obtained her PhD in Pharmacy (Nutrition and Bromatology) at the University of Salamanca (2008). She has published more than 515 indexed papers in the Food Science and Technology area (61 h‐index), edited 4 books, written several book chapters, registered 8 national patents, is principal investigator of several research projects and has supervision several post-doc, PhD and master students. She has reached top positions in the world rankings, such as Highly Cited Researcher Clarivate, since 2016. Her research targets are mainly in the identification, separation and recovery of functional molecules from different natural products.