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Cristina Barrera

PhD in Food Science and Technology at Universitat Politècnica de València

About me

Her teaching activity at the Food Technology Department focuses on engineering and technological aspects of those unit operations of food processing that involve a mass transport. As for her research activity, it is developed at the Institute of Food Engineering for Development and studies the relationship between functionality of foods and their structure as affected by the processing. Currently, she collaborates in obtaining ingredients for food use from the food industry by-products.