Editor Name: Salanta Liana Claudia

Designation: Assistant Professor and Research

University: University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca

Country: Romania

Biography:

PhD Liana C. Salanță, 36 years old (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2435-405X), focused in the last 12 years on research topics which aimed the analysis of a wide range of biologically active compounds with antioxidant character, respectively antimicrobial (bitter acids, essential oils, phenolic compounds and flavonoids), from various vegetal matrices (hops, beer, malt, wort, beer industry residues, fruits and vegetables, vinegar). She completed the PhD stage (2010-2013) in the field of Biotechnologies. Most of the articles were focused on determination/quantification of bitter compounds, essential oils and phenols as biomarkers of different varieties of hops and spent grain resulted from the production of beer with application in the food industry and pharmaceutical. The expertise in the field of extraction and analysis of bioactive compounds, food quality and safety control, development and optimization of new functional products, sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability, can be proven by all papers published previously.

The research activity conducted so far resulted in publication of 45 ISI scientific papers, from which 21 as first author, over 50 scientific papers published in International Database Journals (first author/co-author), 4 International Book Chapters (Intech, Elsevier, Nova Science) (first author/co-author),  and 2 patent application (as main author). The RG score of 20.33 with over 35000 reads of the published articles proves a high international visibility. The autonomy and visibility of scientific work of the project manager is also confirmed by the citation of published articles in highly ranked ISI journalls. Bibliometric indicators: h-index (WoS): 6; h-index (Scholar): 11), her work being cited more than 400 times. List of publications available at Google Academic:Liana Salanță

She was involved in several interdisciplinary research projects (>14), 3 as director and and 3 mobility applications grant.