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Carlota Peral is a researcher at TECNALIA Research & Innovation (Spain) in the Area of Health and Food. She has 20 years' experience in developing R&D projects in the chemistry industry being last 5 years' experience related with food ingredients development, biomolecules extraction from agricultural by-products and encapsulation technologies for different applications. She has participated in several European funded research projects. Since 2011 she is part of Tecnalia, working in biomass valorisation, mainly in the development of pre-treatment and downstreaming operations as well as enzymatic and NADES extraction for the recovery of biomolecules from fermentation products.

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Employment (1)

Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation: Vitoria-Gasteiz, País Vasco, ES

2011 to present | Researcher (Food & Health Area)
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Education and qualifications (4)

Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea: Vitoria-Gasteiz, País Vasco, ES

2010 | Master Degree in Nutrition and Health (Pharmacy faculty)
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Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea: Vitoria-Gasteiz, País Vasco, ES

1999 | Master Degree in Environmental Technology and Management (Faculty of Engineering)
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Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea: Leioa, País Vasco, ES

1994 | Graduate in Chemistry (Sciences Faculty)
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University of Strathclyde: Glasgow, Glasgow, GB

1993 | Bachelor of Science in Forensic and Analytical Chemistry
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Funding (6)

Combining carboxylic acid production and fibre recovery as an innovative, cost-effective and sustainable pre-treatment process for heterogeneous bio-waste

2020-06-01 to 2023-05-31 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 887115
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Natural Enzymes for Ecological Detergents to improve biologically certified Washing products

2019-04-01 to 2021-09-30 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 852970
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Biowaste derived volatile fatty acid platform for biopolymers, bioactive compounds and chemical building blocks

2016-12-01 to 2020-11-30 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 720777
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BioTRANSformation of by-products from fruit and vegetable processing industry into valuable BIOproducts

2011-12-01 to 2015-11-30 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 289603
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New tailor-made PHB-based nanocomposites for high performance applications produced from environmentally friendly production routes

2010-07-01 to 2014-06-30 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 246449
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INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF EUROPEAN WINE INDUSTRY COMPETITIVENESS BY THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATIVE MICROENCAPSULATED WINE YEASTS TO PRODUCE QUALITY WINES

2009-09-01 to 2011-12-31 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 232454
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Works (3)

Cell Retention as a Viable Strategy for PHA Production from Diluted VFAs with Bacillus megaterium

Bioengineering
2022-03-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Milos Kacanski; Lukas Pucher; Carlota Peral; Thomas Dietrich; Markus Neureiter
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Volatile fatty acid platform - a cornerstone for the circular bioeconomy

FEMS microbiology letters
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85107319571

Part of ISSN: 15746968
Contributors: Velghe, F.; De Wilde, F.; Snellinx, S.; Farahbakhsh, S.; Belderbos, E.; Peral, C.; Wiedemann, A.; Hiessl, S.; Michels, J.; Pierrard, M.-A. et al.
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Biomass Pretreatment Strategies (Technologies, Environmental Performance, Economic Considerations, Industrial Implementation)

Biotransformation of Agricultural Waste and By-Products: The Food, Feed, Fibre, Fuel (4F) Economy
2016 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-84969234047

Contributors: Peral, C.
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