Edgar Perestrelo was born in 1997, on the island of Madeira. He graduated in Biochemistry in 2020 and obtained a master’s degree in food safety and Technology in 2022 from the NOVA School of Science & Technology and whose dissertation topic was «Characterization of the bioactive properties of medicinal plants from the Autonomous Region of Madeira ». He currently works as a junior laboratory technician at CIIMAR. His current interests are chemical analysis, determination of antioxidant, antimicrobial and antidiabetic activity of extracts of food origin.
