Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota & Professor, Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan (Italy)
Alessandra Marti is an Professor at the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS) at University of Milan since 2018. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Food Biotechnology from the University of Milan in 2010. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Minnesota from 2013 to 2015, and since 2016 she is an Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at University of Minnesota. As a food technologist, her main research activity focuses on the development of food products from cereals, pseudocereals and pulses (or their fractions) with enhanced quality traits, also by setting up and applying suitable technological or bio-technological processes.