Essential Oils

Prof. Dr Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira graduated in chemistry from the Federal University of Pará, as well as studied the master's and Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology at the same university. He has 12 years of professional experience, working from 2010 to 2014 at the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), with the chemistry of natural products, later in 2014 to 2018, in the Postgraduate Program in Food Science and Technology at the University Federal do Pará, specifically with essential oils, and since 2020 he has been a researcher for the Institutional Training Program - PCI, at the institution Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi , linked to the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações of Brazil (MCTI), with studies focused on extraction, characterization chemistry and applications of essential oils, in several industrial segments, among them the food industry. Specifically, Dr. Mozaniel de Oliveira has experience in the scientific areas of Engineering, Food Science and Technology, Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry, Ethnopharmacology and Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry, Methods of Extraction of Bioactive Compounds, Biotechnology of Natural Products, Allelopathy seeking new natural herbicides to control invasive plants. He also has experience in the area of essential oil extraction using supercritical technology and conventional methods. Area of Concentration: Tropical Botany (UFRA/MPEG) since 2020, has supervised and co-supervised masters, and Ph.D. students in several graduate programs. Dr. Oliveira serves as a reviewer for 31 international scientific journals and is the academic editor of the journals Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Impact Factor 2629), Journal of Food Quality (Impact Factor 2.45), Molecules (Impact Factor 4411), and OpenChemistry (Impact Factor: 1554).