Prof. Dr. Mª Carmen Vidal-Carou

Member

Full Professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences. Director of the Food and Nutrition Campus of the University of Barcelona. Head of the Food Bioactive Amines and Polyamines Research Group. President of the Scientific Committee of the Catalan Agency for Food Safety. Honorary Member of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Biography

Professor of Nutrition and Bromatology and director of the Bioactive Amines and Polyamines in Food research group at the University of
Barcelona. She has participated in more than 60 competitive research projects awarded by national and regional public bodies and has also led 33 transfer projects
with industry or administration. She is the author or co-author of more than 150 publications in high impact journals, 4 books, 25 book chapters and more than 100
popular science articles. She has an H-index of 48 and has supervised or co-directed 14 doctoral theses.
In the Academic field, since 2018, she is Director of the Food Campus of the University of Barcelona, has been Head of Studies of the Degree in Food Science and
Technology (2008-2015) and currently directs the Interuniversity Master in Food Safety and different postgraduate programmes of the Institute for Lifelong Learning
(IL3) of the University of Barcelona. She is currently Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Catalan Food Safety Agency of the Generalitat de Catalunya and member of
the Advisory Committee of the Expert Panel on Food Allergies and Intolerances of the Catalan Food Safety Agency, of the Public Health Advisory Committee of the
Department of Health, and of the Catalan Food Council. Between 2009 and 2013, he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and
Nutrition (AESAN). He is a member of the board of directors of several Scientific Societies in the field of Food and Nutrition (Spanish Society of Nutrition and Spanish
Society for Food Safety and Quality). He is an Honorary Member of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.