{"id":1538,"date":"2019-01-18T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T13:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2023-02-23T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T10:21:06","slug":"phd-student-profile-alessio-tugnolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/2019\/01\/18\/phd-student-profile-alessio-tugnolo\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student profile, Alessio Tugnolo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PhD Student<\/strong>: Alessio Tugnolo<\/p>\n

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Tutor<\/strong>: Riccardo Guidetti<\/p>\n

Dean<\/strong>: Prof. Ella Pagliarini<\/p>\n

Research area<\/strong>: Food Science and Nutrition<\/p>\n

PhD title achieved on<\/strong>: 1st<\/sup>\u00a0March 2022<\/p>\n

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Research topic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Development of non-destructive techniques for the analysis of agri-food products: feasibility studies of simplified devices<\/p>\n

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Project Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nowadays, a high level of automation in the agri-food industry is required inside the context of industry 4.0. Each product, after a critical processing point, needs a real-time control to ensure the highest quality required by the customers.<\/p>\n

Fast and precise analytical methods are essential to ensure product quality, safety, authenticity and compliance with labelling. Traditional methods and tools of food monitoring (e.g. high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry) are time-consuming, expensive and require sample destruction.<\/p>\n

Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is well established as a non-destructive tool for multi-constituent quality analysis of food materials during the productive process. However, this technique requires good know-how and it provides punctual information about the product.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the goal of the project is to elaborate a new kind of customized and simplified instruments, based on NIR techniques, which are easy to use, less expensive and provide the best information required.<\/p>\n

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Project keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n

Food quality, Industry 4.0, non-destructive techniques, simplified devices.<\/p>\n

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Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Address: Via Celoria, 2, 20133 – Milano (MI)<\/p>\n

Affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – Production, Landscape, Agroenergy<\/p>\n

E-mail: alessio.tugnolo@unimi.it<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Office phone: 02503 16865<\/p>\n

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Collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n