Purificación García Segovia

Dra. Purificación García Segovia has been working for 20 years at the food technology department in Universitat Politecnica de Valencia including her PhD thesis.

Her expertise focuses on food innovation and nutrition. She has three postdoc stages: 2003 at Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Island, Spain with Dr Serra Majem), 2012 at University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Ark, USA) and 2020 in Porto University with Dr Luis Cunha. She has 3 years as Research Staff and 20 as Professor at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. Since 2022 is Full Professor at UPV.

She has been the advisor for 8 PhD theses, author in more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals (Q1-Q2 47; Q3-Q4: 14; no JCR: 25, h-index=18 in WOS), research in more than 50 research projects (European Commission 15; national 14; regional 11; other supported 15) and coordinator in R&D projects with different food companies. She has 4 patents of invention.

Dra. García-Segovia is on the editorial board in Journal Culinary Science and Technology and advisor for several agencies of research evaluation.
She has experience in the management of innovative projects in the food sector and training students on the management of innovative food projects. She was also a partner in the spin-off of UPV Food Design.

List of his publications:
https://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/pugarse