Isabel Castanheira

Invited Professor at the University of Lisbon. Principal Researcher at INSA. Associate Editor of Food Chemistry. Former Chairperson of IMEKO Technical Committee for Metrology in Food and Nutrition. Co-author of scientific publications in   Metrology in Food.

She participated in international collaborative studies focusing on certification campaigns of values assigned to CRMs/SRMs. She is interested in analysing the content of nutrients and contaminants in food products in terms of the comparability and reliability of the measurement values and processes. Her activities encompass aspects of the traceability routes to SI units involving intermediate reference points, which are identified and developed through state-of-the-art analytical methods.