António Vicente, Prof. PhD.

António Vicente is Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering, which he directed prior to his current appointments as vice-Dean of the School of Engineering and Director of the Doctoral College of that University.

António Vicente graduated in Food Engineering from the Portuguese Catholic University in 1994, received his PhD in 1998 and did his Habilitation in 2010 in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Minho.

António Vicente is a Senior Member and Specialist in Food Engineering by the Portuguese Engineers Association.

As a researcher, he has dedicated his work to the development of micro and nanotechnological systems for application in the Agrofood sector, to the evaluation of their behavior in dynamic in vitro digestion systems, and to the study of the influence of the application of electric fields in cells and biomolecules.
He has published >370 articles in international ISI WOS journals, >30 chapters in books of international circulation, >400 papers in congresses, 5 patents and edited 5 scientific books, yielding an h-index of 89. He won the Food and Nutrition Awards in 2015 and 2017 in the R&D category. In the last six years he was distinguished as Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics and in the last five years he has integrated the list of the top 2 % most cited researchers by Stanford University.