Prof. Márcio Carocho

Márcio Carocho is an Assistant Researcher at SUSTec–Associate Laboratory for Sustainability and Technology in Mountain Regions and CIMO–Mountain Research Centre, at the Bragança Polytechnic University (BPU), Portugal. He holds a PhD in Pharmacy from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biotechnology from BPU. His research lies at the intersection of food science, chemistry of natural products, and sustainable bio-based technologies, with a particular focus on the development of innovative solutions for the agrifood sector. Since 2023, he is ranked among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists in Food Science. He has authored over 100 scientific articles and 15 book chapters, having also edited a book on secondary metabolites of plants. He holds three patents and was a co-founder of Tree Flowers Solutions, a biotech start-up dedicated to the development of sustainable technologies for the agrifood sector.