Pedro Maldonado-Alvarado
Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN), Ecuador
Biography
Pedro Maldonado-Alvarado is Associate Professor at the Department of Food Sciences and Biotechnology in EPN and Collaborator professor of Ecuadoran universities as UTPL and UTA. He is PhD in Biochemistry, Chemistry and Food Technology of the Université Montpellier, France. Dr. Maldonado is director of 3 scientific projects and collaborator of 4 national and international projects. He have more than 20 scientific publications. He works in Valorization of Ecuadorian products and by-products, particularly farinaceous. Also, extraction of active principles and interest molecules of food and non-food matrix. Finally, on food safety in Ecuador, particularly the incidence of heavy metals on foods