Database providing access to the High Technology Network's industrial research offering: research competences, type of analyses and tests available at the Laboratories. Companies can consult the Catalogue to find Laboratories and researchers that match their needs.
Competence
Acquisition and pre-processing of signals for model identification
Analysis of standards and regulations: laws and guidelines for protected, biological raw material, and processing
Biomarker identification to assess the effects of bioactive components in humans
Continuous-time and discrete-time mathematical modeling of systems and processes
Design of new molecular markers for traceability of specific varietal components
Discrete events mathematical modeling of systems and processes
Effects of industrial processes on the nutritional qualities of foods
Evaluation of dietary habits of the population in order to identify risk behaviours and prevention strategies
Evaluation of molecular transformations during food processing
Evaluation of the interactions between food matrix and bioactive components
Evaluation of the organoleptic characteristics of food bioactive components and related food
Evaluation of the physical, chemical, and microbial characteristics of products
Extraction of bioactive components from food waste (polyphenols, omega3 and omega6 fatty acids)
Finite element simulation (FEM)
Food traceability by evaluation of functional components
Food traceability by genetic analysis
Food traceability by spectroscopic techniques, NMR, proteomic and peptidomic methods for the identification of ingredients or contaminants
Formal languages for systems modeling (Unified Modeling Language-UML and SysML-System Modeling Language)
Functional compounds characterization from raw materials, ingredients, food and food industry left-overs
Genetic methods for varietal identification
Human studies for the validation of nutritional/health claims (including analysis of biological samples and statistical analysis of the results)
Identification of models and parameters estimation
Infinite-dimensional mathematical modeling of systems
Market survey and consumer trends towards functional foods
Mathematical modelling for product/process optimization
Methods for the specific and varietal identification based on single components within blends
Modeling of the collision of bodies in mechanical systems
Molecular characterization of DNA, protein, peptides and metabolites
Non-parametric modeling (neural networks, etc.)
Optimization of raw material selection for food processing/products
Packaging, designing and testing: choice of the proper materials for the desired product
Packaging, designing and testing: shelf-life evaluation of food products and bioactive components
Preparation of the nutritional/health claims application
Regulation on GMOs and labelling
Selection of nutritional/health claims according to EU Regulation
Set up of in vitro methods and animal models for the evaluation of the health effects of food bioactive components
Simulation for discrete events models
Simulation for dynamic continuous-time and discrete-time models
Software and internet services supporting traceability and monitoring quali-quantitative productions in agro-food
Traceability of compositional changes during processing by chemical, biochemical, and genetic analyses