Project Team

Manuela Pintado is THRIVE’s Coordinator. She is the Director of CBQF and the leader of the research group Bioactives and Bioproducts Research. She is an expert on circular economy with an emphasis on the valorization of agri-food byproducts. Her group focusses on developing integrated solutions to obtain value-added molecules from underutilized resources, agri-food, and marine system wastes and byproducts, using bio-refinery approaches for functional foods, feeds, or materials applications. Her group works in close collaboration with the Portuguese industrial ecosystem. She is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Biotechnology of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where she is also the Associate Dean for Research.