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About
Alfredo Palop Gómez
Alfredo Palop Gómez is a Full Professor in the Food Technology area of the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT). Doctor in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Zaragoza, he performed postdoctoral stays at Unilever Research Colworth Laboratory, in Bedford, United Kingdom, at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, United States and at the University of Zaragoza. In 1999 he joined the UPCT, where he has remained since, first as Professor and, subsequently, as Full Professor.
His main interest is in the area of food microbiology, in aspects related to heat treatments and heat resistance of vegetative and spore-forming bacteria, use of antimicrobial compounds for food preservation, mechanisms of resistance and inactivation of microorganisms and predictive microbiology.
He has leaded 8 funded research projects and 23 contracts with companies and has participated in other over 60 projects and contracts with companies. As a result of these investigations he has published 72 articles in journals included in the Science Citation Index (index H: 31) and three book chapters and has presented more than one hundred communications to congresses.
He has supervised nine doctoral theses and patented two pieces of equipment, an automatic and hygienic evaporative cooler and a thermoresistometer. The thermoresistometer obtained the CE marking in 2018 and has been purchased by several laboratories around the world.
He regularly carries out evaluations of articles for journals included in the Journal of Citation Reports and is an evaluator of scientific projects for Spanish Research Agency (AEI), also collaborating with other international evaluation agencies. He has been coordinator of the Agricultural and Food Technology PhD Program of the UPCT, vicedirector of Postgraduate and Institutional Relations of the School of Agricultural Engineering, member of the Committee on Research Ethics at the UPCT and member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Consumption, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN). He is currently member of the editorial board of the journals Food Microbiology, International Journal of Food Microbiology and Frontiers in Microbiology, responsible for the Microbiology and Food Safety Unit of the Plant Biotechnology Institute of the UPCT, Coordinator of the PhD Program on Advanced Techniques in Food and Agricultural Research and Development (TAIDA) of the UPCT and Coordinator of the Group of Experts of AECOSAN on self-life studies in relation to Listeria monocytogenes on ready to eat foods.
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Abbreviation list
- BS: Basic course
- B: Required course
- O: Elective course
- A: Year-long
- 1Q: 1st half
- 2Q: 2st half
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Máster Universitario en Innovación, Desarrollo y Sostenibilidad Agroalimentariao
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Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Agronómica
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