Food WG 4, Food interactions on surfaces, LINXS Fellow

Olga Santos is a material specialist at the Materials Technology & Chemistry lab at Alfa Laval. She is also adjunct lecturer at the department of physical chemistry I at Lund University. She has a background on Chemical Engineering with a PhD in Food Engineering at Lund University. Her research focuses on thin coatings applied on metal surfaces for fouling reduction and corrosion protection, fouling and cleaning mechanisms, adsorption and desorption of protein films (fouling), surfactants and lipids on solid surfaces and characterization of solid surfaces. During her time at Alfa Laval, she has been part of several external research projects with partners from the industry, research institutes and universities at both national and international level.