Ana Carolina Leal Vieira
Ana Carolina Leal Vieira
Phd Student
ana.vieira@staff.uma.pt

Short Biography

In 2015 I completed my degree in Biochemistry, at the University of Madeira, Portugal and in July 2017, I got my Master degree in Applied Biochemistry at the same institution. My dissertation title was Vicinal Diketones Monitoring During Lager Beer Fermentation: The Importance of Nitrogenous Compounds and my research was focused on lager beer fermentation and flavour production, giving special attention to vicinal diketones formation and reduction. Since my academic years, I have been developing various analytical areas of expertise which include gas-chromatography, mass spectrometry, spectrophotometric techniques and methodology implementation and validation. Additionally, I have also been applying my knowledge to chemically characterize food products such as endemic fruits, like blueberries species, Madeira wine, lager beer and fermentation samples, using and optimizing in parallel diverse techniques for sample preparation and for the extraction of key analytes. At the end of 2017 I started to work in the project SuperPRO I, in cooperation with a local brewery, Empresa de Cervejas da Madeira (ECM). The main goal of this project is to supervise the lager beer fermentation process and in the meanwhile I have also been studying preservation techniques of fermented wort samples as well as oxidation-related compounds in beer storage and the influence of temperature during oversea transportation in the quality of exported beer.
Grau Classificação
2017 Concluído Bioquímica Aplicada (Mestrado) Universidade da Madeira, Portugal "Vicinal Diketones Monitoring During Lager Beer Fermentation: The Importance of Nitrogenous Compounds" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO) 18
2014/07/09 Concluído Bioquímica (Licenciatura) Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia, Portugal 15
Carvalho, Maria J.; Gouveia, Carla S.; Vieira, Ana C.; Pereira, Ana C.; Carvalho, Miguel Â.; Marques, José C.. "Nutritional and Phytochemical Composition of Vaccinium padifolium Sm Wild Berries and Radical Scavenging Activity". Journal of Food Science 82 11 (2017): 2554-2561. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1750-3841.13928. 10.1111/1750-3841.13928
Leça, João M.; Pereira, Ana C.; Vieira, Ana C.; Reis, Marco S.; Marques, José C.. "Optimal design of experiments applied to headspace solid phase microextraction for the quantification of vicinal diketones in beer through gas chromatography-mass spectrometric detection". Analytica Chimica Acta 887 (2015): 101-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2015.06.044. 10.1016/j.aca.2015.06.044
Vieira, Ana C.; Carvalho, Maria J.; Pereira, Ana C.; Freitas, S.; Mendes, T.; Branco, N.; Marques, José C.. "Volatile organic compounds monitoring during lager beer fermentation: effects of yeast re-pitching and process variability". Trabalho apresentado em 37th EBC Congress 2019, 2019.
Vieira, Ana C.; Carvalho, Maria J.; Pereira, Ana C.; Marques, José C.. "Vicinal diketones and nitrogenous compounds monitoring during lager beer fermentation: effects of yeast re-pitching". Trabalho apresentado em XXIV Encontro Luso-Galego da Química, 2018.
Vieira, Ana C.; Carvalho, Maria J.; Pereira, Ana C.; Marques, José C.. "Effect of different conservation treatments for unfiltered wort and beer samples during storage". Trabalho apresentado em XXIV Encontro Luso-Galego da Química, 2018. 10.13031/aim.20162378067
Pereira, Ana C.; Leça, João M.; Vieira, Ana C.; Reis, Marco S.; Marques, José C.. "Optimization of HS-SPME to quantify Vicinal Ketones in beer based on an optimal design of experiments". Trabalho apresentado em XVI Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, 2016.
Vieira, Ana C.. "Vicinal Diketones Monitoring During Lager Beer Fermentation: The Importance of Nitrogenous Compounds". Mestrado, Universidade da Madeira, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/1643.

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