Miryam Amigobenavent
Doctor
food & nutrition
Food for Health Ireland
Ireland
Biography
Miryam is currently working within the FHI Healthy Ageing and Performance Nutrition workpackage in UL. She holds a BSc degree in Biology and Food Science from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a PhD, working on Functional Foods from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Miryam spent 5 years as a Post-doc in different Food Science Research Institutes of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She conducts research on the oxidative damage to macromolecules using cell-based and non-cell based assays in vitro and ex vivo, and evaluates the efficacy of novel food products on their ability to moderate oxidative stress.
Research Interest
Nutrional Development
