Education

Graduation in Agricultural Engineering (ISA/UTL), 1974
Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering (ISA/UTL), 1984
"Agregação" (ISA/UTL), 1992

Teaching 

Food Quality and Safety
Cereal Technology

Research Activities

    Cereal Technology 

- Development of alternative technologies to be applied to grains (cereals and legumes) and starchy products;
- Extrusion-cooking technologies;
- Unconventional baking processes;
- Starch functionality

    Thermal Characterization of Food Products by DSC analysis

    Food Preservation

- Edible films
- MAP

    Methods of Aroma Extraction and Characterization for Food Purposes

Abreu M., Beirão-da-Costa S., Gonçalves E. M., Beirão-da-Costa M.L., Moldão-Martins M., (2003), Mild heat pre-treatment to promote quality retention of fresh-cut “Rocha” pear, Postharvest Biol. Technol. (in press).

Duarte C., Moldão-Martins M., Gouveia A. F., Beirão-da-Costa S., Leitão A. E., Bernardo-Gil M. G. (2003), Supercritical fluid extraction of Red Pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.), The J. of Supercritical Fluid (in press).

Falcão-Rodrigues M. M., Moldão-Martins M. and Beirão-da-Costa M. L. (2003), Thermal properties of gluten proteins of two soft wheat varieties, Thermochimica Acta (Submited).

Moldão-Martins M., Beirão-da-Costa S., Neves C.,  Cavaleiro C., Salgueiro L., Beirão-da-Costa M. L., (2003), Olive oil flavoured by the essential oils of Mentha x piperita and Thymus mastichina, Food quality and Preference (in press).

 Moldão-Martins M., S. M. Beirão-da-Costa and M.L. Beirão-da-Costa (2003), The effects of edible coatings on postharvest quality of the “Bravo de Esmolfe” apple European Food Reserch and Technology (in press).

 Falcão-Rodrigues M. M., Moldão-Martins M. and Beirão-da-Costa M. L., (2002), A Differential Scanning Calorimetry study of different lupin species meals, European Food Reserch and Technology, 215, 4:317-321.

 Moldão-Martins M., Bernardo-Gil M.G. and Beirão-da-Costa M., (2002), Sensory and chemical evaluation of Thymus zygis L. essential oil and compressed CO₂ extracts, European Food Reserch and Technology, 214, 207-211.

 Ribeiro M. A., Martins M. M., Esquivel M. M., Bernardo Gil M. G., (2002), “Extraccion De La Menta Con CO₂ Supercritico. Infuencia De Las Condiciones De Extraccion En La Actividad Antioxidante De Los Residuos” Información Tecnológica, 13, 185-190.

 Moldão-Martins M., Palavra A., Beirão-da-Costa M.L. and Bernardo-Gil, M.G., (2000), Supercritical CO₂ Extraction Of Thymus Zygis L. Subsp. Sylvestris Aroma. The J. of Supercritical Fluid, 18: 35-47.

 Moldão-Martins M., Bernardo-Gil M.G., Beirão-da-Costa, M.L and Rouzet, M., (1999), “Seasonal variation in yield and composition of Thymus zygis L. essential oil”, Flavour and Fragr. J., 14: 177-182.

 Amparo M.A., Moldão-Martins M., Bernardo Gil G., Beirão-da-Costa M. L., Empis J. A., Rouzet M., Santos R., Lu  T., King M., Godinho R. E Bastos J. (1998),  Thymus Capitatus L. From Southern  Portugal, Bernardo Gil G., Empis J. A. (Ed.), Project Européen Air3ct93-0818, Air Agro-Industrial Research, IST, Lisboa, ISBN 972-97813-2-X.

Moldão-Martins M., Beirão-da-Costa M. L., Bernardo Gil G., Empis J. A., Rouzet M., Santos R., Lu  T., King M., Godinho R. E Bastos J. (1998),  Thymus Zygis L.. Un Thym Du Nord Portugal, Bernardo Gil G., Empis J. A. (Ed.), Project Européen Air3ct93-0818, Air Agro-Industrial Research, Ist, Lisboa, ISBN 972-97813-1-1.

 Romero, L.; Beirão-da-Costa, M.L.; Oliveira, A. And Pampulha, M.E. (1998), On the interaction between Zygosaccharomyces rouxii and Lactobacillus plantarum. J.Food Mycol., 1(3): 163-170

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