Dr. Valentina Melini

Title: Dr. Name: Valentina Melini Affiliation: CREA Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Roma (Italy) Institutional email: valentina.melini@crea.gov.it Homepage: Education history: Master's Degree in Medicinal Chemistry (Sapienza University – Rome, Italy); PhD in Food Biotechnology (Università degli Studi del Molise - Campobasso, Italy) Career history: She has been working as a food scientist at the CREA Research Centre for Food and Nutrition in Rome since 2011. She gained expertise in the nutritional and technological characterization of cereal matrices, with emphasis on the development of analytical procedures (mainly HPLC) for the determination of bioactive compounds. Recently, she has been working on flavor chemistry and on the determination of volatile organic compounds by SPME-GC/MS. Research interests: Cereals, pseudocereals, bioactive compounds, gluten-free products, flavor compounds, analytical chemistry