Contact
Email: mariafranco@food.au.dk
Phone: +34 979108385
María Franco Marcos
Postdoctoral Researcher
Affiliations
Main affiliation
-Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Food Technology Division, University of Valladolid
Profile
María Franco Marcos is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Food Technology Area at the University of Valladolid since March 2025.
Research lines
- Analytical methods to elucidate structural features of polysaccharides, including monomer composition, hydrodynamic and molecular weight, anomeric configuration and chain length distributions.
- Interactions between food macromolecules and small metabolites (e.g., polyphenols) in complex systems.
- Health aspects, particularly the digestion and bioaccesibility of plant biopolymers and phenolic compounds and the role of polysaccharides as dietary fiber.