Celia Ferreira
University of Leeds
UK
Dr Celia Ferreira joined the University of Leeds, UK, in January 2015 as a Lecturer in the School of Food Sciences and Nutrition and the Director of the Master Program in Food Biotechnology. Dr Celia is the Principal Investigator of the Fermentation enabled novel proteins & Sustainability Group. She holds a foundation Engineering degree in Engineering Food Biotechnology from the Portuguese Catholic University, Porto, Portugal and obtained a PhD in Sciences- Yeast cell and Molecular Biology in Carlsberg Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark and the University of Minho, Portugal. She has worked as a Postdoctoral fellow in School of Biology of the Minho University and after as a Lecturer in Glycomics (2009-2014). She was awarded several fellowships e.g. the Fulbright fellowship in 2007 spending 6 month in Technical Texas University, EUA, studying Lipidomics; the CNpQ visiting professor fellowship in 2010 spending 5 months in Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil teaching Glycomics, being the most recent one the Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship in 2023, UK, 1 year, developing a business project - STARProteins
