Curriculum Vitae
Ana Catarina Sousa Costa
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Ana Catarina Sousa Costa
- Date of birth
- 1995/09/01
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Costa, Ana Catarina S.
- Costa, Ana Catarina
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 721A-8965-00F8
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3122-0180
Email addresses
- acatarinacosta@isa.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Telephone
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- (+351) 213653207 Ext.: 3207 (Professional)
Addresses
- Laboratório de Bioenergética Microbiana. Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal , 1349-017, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/anacatarinascosta (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology - Fermentation
- Engineering and Technology - Other Engineering and Technologies - Food and Beverages
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2024/07/01 - 2028
Ongoing
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Sustainable Land Use (Doutoramento)
Major in Food Engineering
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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2020/10/01 - 2022/10/28
Concluded
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Ciências Gastronómicas (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
""VEGarum: Innovation of an Ancestral Gastronomic Delicacy through the Fermentation of Palmaria palmata and Ulva rigida"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2020/10/01 - 2022/10/28
Concluded
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Ciências Gastronómicas (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
""VEGarum: Innovation of an Ancestral Gastronomic Delicacy through the Fermentation of Palmaria palmata and Ulva rigida"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2016/09/19 - 2019/11/15
Concluded
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Gestão Turística (regime pós-laboral) (Bachelor)
Major in Produtos e Destinos Turísticos
Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal
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13 |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/12 - Current | Tutor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/01 - Current | PhD Student Fellow | LEAF - Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal | ||
| 2023/07/01 - 2024/06/30 | Researcher Fellow - Master | LEAF - Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal | ||
| 2022/12/01 - 2023/06/30 | Researcher Fellow - Master | LEAF - Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/01 - 2025/12/31 | Agenda VIIAFOOD - Plataforma de Valorização, Industrialização e Inovação comercial para o AgroAlimentar (C644929456-00000040)
C644929456-00000040
PhD Student Fellow
LEAF - Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2023/07/01 - 2024/07/31 | Agenda VIIAFOOD - Plataforma de Valorização, Industrialização e Inovação comercial para o AgroAlimentar (C644929456-00000040)
C644929456-00000040
Research Fellow
LEAF - Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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Concluded
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| 2022/12/01 - 2023/06 | FermentedVegAlgae - Desenvolvimento de produtos fermentados inovadores a partir de algas e vegetais
LISBOA-01-0247-FEDER-047079
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/10/01 - 2023/10/28 | VEGarum - Innovative, healthy ans tasty fermented products from seaweeds
UID/AGR/04129/2020
Master Dissertation in Gastronomical Sciences
LEAF - Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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LEAF - Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Conference abstract |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/02/12 | Fermentar para preservar e acrescentar valor - solução para molhos | Food Talks_Projetos de Investigação LEAF-ISA: Academia vs Indústria
Lisbon Food Affair (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/10/09 | Fermenting waste sauces: a new approach to industrial sustainability for reintroduction into the chain and development of new product. | XVII Encontro Nacional de Química dos Alimentos
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real , Portugal)
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| 2024/02/06 | Ferment to preserve and add value - solution for sauces | Food Talks - Lisbon Food Affair
Lisbon Food Affair (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/15 | Chemical and functional characterization of innovative and healthy fermented plant-based products from sustainable land and sea vegetables | XXII Congress EuroFoodChem
European Chemical Society (Belgrado, Serbia)
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| 2023/05/11 | FERMENTEDVEGALGAE: Lactic acid fermentation processes to create innovative and nutritive products from surplus vegetables and macroalgae | XXII Congress of Food and Nutrition and III International Congress of Food and Nutrition
Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição (Porto, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/02 - 2024/10 | Valorization of by-products from barbecue production through fermentation processes
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Alimentar (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/09/04 - 2024/09/06 | Organisation of the IBERO 2024 ( The Iberian Meeting on Reology). (2024/09/04 - 2024/09/06)
Congress (Other)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/09/30 - 2024/09/30 | Masterclass: FERMENTAÇÃO - Sauerkraut and dosas production demonstration
Congress
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Congresso de Cozinha - Comida e Liberdade
Edições do Gosto, Portugal
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| 2024/09/27 - 2024/09/27 | Noite Europeia dos Investigadores (NEI): Fermented foods: a recent food industry trend for a more sustainable and healthy
society
Exhibition
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NEI - Noite Europeia dos Investigadores
Ciência Viva, Portugal
LEAF - Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
| 2023/09/23 - 2023/09/23 | Noite Europeia dos Investigadores (NEI): Legumes: Ancestral solutions to current problems? Legumes as a high nutritional quality,
sustainable and tasty food
Other
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NEI - Noite Europeia dos Investigadores
Ciência Viva, Portugal
LEAF - Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
| 2023/07/06 - 2023/07/06 | Dissemination of science through didactics activities: esferification and ice cream with liquid nitrogen (Representation by
the company Cooking Lab)
Festival
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NOS ALIVE
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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| 2023/05/31 - 2023/06/01 | Participation in activities to disseminate the results of the FermentedVegAlgae project: physical stand with testing and demonstration
of the prototypes developed and organisation of a workshop with the consortium partners - Casa Mendes Gonçalves and MC Sonae.
Workshop
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The FermentedVegAlgae project: lactic acid fermentation of vegetables and macroalgae to fight food waste and increase healthy
food product offerings in retail
Food Tech Congress, Poland
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| 2023/02/13 - 2023/02/13 | Participation in activities to publicise the results of the FermentedVegAlgae project with tastings, sensory evaluation forms
and demonstrations of the prototypes developed. (ISA/LEAF - Linking, Landscape, Enviromental, Agriculture and Food).
Workshop
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Food of the Future Workshop: Sustainable and nutritious alternatives
Lisbon Food Affair - FIL, Portugal
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| 2022/10/16 - 2022/10/16 | Demonstration and tasting of fermented foods in the microbial bioenergetics laboratory (ISA/LEAF - Linking, Landscape, Enviromental,
Agriculture and Food)
Exhibition
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World Food Day
Pavilhão do Conhecimento-Centro Ciência Viva, Portugal
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| 2022/06/05 - 2022/06/05 | Demonstration of fermented foods produced as part of master's dissertations.
Workshop
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À Descoberta do LEAF na Tapada da Ajuda
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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| 2022/03/23 - 2022/03/23 | Representation of the Master's degree in Gastronomic Sciences - Demonstration and preparation of ice cream with liquid nitrogen.
Exhibition
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Futurália
FIL - Feira Internacional de Lisboa, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2025/04 - Current | Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/03/01 - Current | Transversal Competences in Scientific Research: Food, Innovation, Sustainability | (Outros) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
| 2025/04/02 - 2025/04/04 | New Product Development Training “NPD Skills”: Consumer-Centric Design in NPD & AI | EIT Food CLC North-East Sp z oo, Poland | |
| 2025/03/24 - 2025/03/27 | Science Writing Workshop | (Outros) | TERRA Associate Laboratory, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
| 2024/11 - 2024/11 | Effective Networking for Researchers (Workshop) | (Outros) | TERRA Associate Laboratory, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal Chaperone, Portugal |
| 2024/10 - 2024/10 | Identifying Skills and Strengths for Researchers (Workshop) | (Outros) | TERRA Associate Laboratory, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal Chaperone, Portugal |
| 2023/09/11 - 2024/01/09 | Nutrition and Health: Human Microbiome - WageningenX - edX platform (online non-degree course) | edX LLC, United States Wageningen University, Netherlands |
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| 2023/03/30 - 2023/08/22 | Plant Based Diets: Food for a Sustainable Future - WageningenX - edX platform (online non-degree course) | edX LLC, United States Wageningen University, Netherlands |
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| 2022/11/16 - 2023/03/29 | Food Fermentation: The Science of Cooking with Microbes - HarvardX - edX platform (online non-degree course) | edX LLC, United States Harvard University, United States |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
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| 2024/02 - Current | Master Thesis Mentor: Aceitação por parte dos consumidores de vinhos doces sujeitos a estufagem | Cátia Bolota |
| 2024/02/01 - 2024/10 | Master Thesis Mentor: Valorization of by-products from barbecue production through fermentation processes | Joana Braga |
| 2024/07/15 - 2024/07/19 | Ciencia Viva no Laboratório_Fermentar: uma forma de dar valor a resíduos da indústria alimentar (Fermenting: a way of giving value to food industry waste) | Isabel Festas |
| 2023/02/01 - 2024/02/29 | Master Thesis Mentor: Characterization of sauerkraut-like fermented vegetables produced from wasted plant parts and surplus vegetables | Margarida Próspero |
| 2023/02/01 - 2024/02/29 | Master Thesis Mentor: Production and characterization of fermented "sauerkraut- style" product from Portuguese macroalgae Alaria esculenta and Palmaria palmata | Maria Gerö M. Branco |
Distinctions
Award
| 2023 | Best student in Gastronomic Sciences 2021/2022
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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