Shelf-life extension of food products Optimization and process innovation for the food industry; Development of Biosensors for food quality control.

Donatella Albanese is an Associate professor at the University of Salerno, Department of Industrial Engineering. She has devoted her research field on the optimization and innovation of food technologies. Her research activities are focused on the shelf-life extension of food products and on the optimization and process innovation for the food industry. During the last years, she investigated the development of biosensors for monitoring and control of food quality. Prof Albanese is author of more than 100 scientific papers, 56 of them published in ISI/Scopus journals. Moreover, she is author of two international patents: Active packaging for the transportation of vegetable material -EP 2006218A3; Adsorbent for lengthening the shelf life of food products-EP 1530 998 A3. She was guest editor for the journal Biosensors, special issues “Biosensor and Bioanalytical Microtechniques in Environmental, Food & Clinical Analysis" and "Screen-Printed Electrodes and for the journal Sensors special issue “Smart Biosensing at BBMEC 12