Tutorials

The talk will focus on off-line and on-line sensors for the rapid assessment of the chemical and physical properties and the microbial status of raw materials, process streams and end products.
Complex and variable samples in terms of chemical composition and physical structure in addition to hostile conditions and hygiene requirements represent challenging conditions for these sensors. The development and implementation of successful tools require a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the relationship between food properties and environment, on the transducer and electronics characteristics and on the statistical procedures.

Annachiara Berardinelli received the degree in Food Science and Technologies from the University of Bologna and the doctoral degree in Agricultural Engineering from University of Bologna. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Trento (Center of Agriculture, Food and Environment C3A and Department of Industrial Engineering). She is in charge to teach “Mechanization and precision viticulture” and “Innovative plants and automation for the agri-food production and transformation” courses.
She works on the assessment of physical and mechanical properties of agricultural products and on the development of systems for non-destructive determinations of biological product qualitative attributes, based on their optical, electric and dielectric properties and on the combination with multivariate and machine learning tools. Another area of work is the study of innovative solutions for non-thermal treatments of food products.