Project Administrative Assistant
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) [ 26/10/2022 – 19/02/2024 ]
City: Parma
Country: Italy
Website: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en
Randstad employee working as Project Administrative Assistant at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). My daily work is aimed at supporting the Architecture & Solutions team of Transformation Services Unit in ensuring IT tools integration, implementation of architecture best practices, alignment among projects, and compliance with business needs and processes.
European Food Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellowship Programme
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) [ 30/08/2021 – 31/08/2022 ]
City: Warsaw
Country: Poland
Website: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/engage/fellowship
EU-FORA is a hands-on experience in food safety risk assessment that foresees practical work in a hosting site and several training weeks led by EFSA over the 12 months. The programme aims to increase the pool of food safety risk assessment experts available in Europe and build a common EU culture for risk assessment.
Hosting organisation: State Research Institute of Agriculture and Food Biotechnology Prof. Wacław Dąbrowski (IBPRS-PIB)
Department: Food Safety and Chemical Analysis
Analytical determination, exposure assessment and risk characterization of chemical contaminants in rye-wheat bread to different age groups of Polish population:
• Process contaminants: acrylamide [GC-MS]
• Mycotoxins: deoxynivalenol, deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside, nivalenol and nivalenol-3-glucoside [HPLC-UV]
• Environmental contaminants: aluminium, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, nickel [ICP-MS]
• Pesticides [LC-MS]
The work has been published as a scientific report in the EFSA Journal.
Trainee
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) [ 31/01/2020 – 31/07/2021 ]
City: Parma
Country: Italy
Website: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en
I contributed to the deployment and it integration with internal and external tools of the case management tool
aimed at supporting EFSA’s scientific experts in handling dossiers, performing risk assessment activities and communicating with stakeholders. My daily work has foreseen:
• Business processes analysis and implementation
• Stakeholders needs and business requirements collection and analysis
• User Stories creation
• User Acceptance Tests planning and execution
• Agile methodology
• Project Management principles
• Documentation management
Food technology, safety, and nutrition specialist
Centro de Formación Tecnologico de Eterazama (CEFTE) [ 31/01/2019 – 17/11/2019 ]
City: Eterazama, Cochabamba Department
Country: Bolivia
Website: https://www.facebook.com/institutotecnologicoeterazama
The institute is dedicated to professional education and has a manufacturing plant for energy bars, cupcakes, marmalade and fruit juice. I collaborated in product development and quality assurance. My daily work has foreseen:
• Good Hygiene Practices (GHP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) implementation
• Plant trials execution
• Product recipes enhancement
• Workshops with adults and children living in rural villages on food safety, hygiene and nutrition
• Workshops with Food Science students on food-products development aimed at valorising local resources and ingredients
• English lessons to Agroecology and Food Science students
R&D Trainee
Cacaolab bv [ 31/07/2016 – 30/08/2016 ]
City: Desteldonk (Ghent)
Country: Belgium
Website: http://www.cacaolab.be/?q=content/cacaolab
I set up and carried out my own project aimed at producing hazelnut fillings suitable for chocolate pralines intended to be marketed in tropical countries.
I worked with different analytical techniques and instruments such as:
- Texture analysis (determination of hardness)
- Rheology (determination of flow behaviour) Differential Scanning Calorimeter DSC (determination of melting behaviour)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance NMR (evaluation of manufacturing process influence on texture)
- Polarised light microscopy (visualization of fat and sugar crystals)
- Colorimeter
- Sensory evaluation
Research assistant
Genomics Research Centre (CREA) [ 01/08/2015 – 31/08/2015 ]
City: Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Piacenza
Country: Italy
Website: https://www.crea.gov.it/en/web/genomica-e-bioinformatica
I performed research activities related to:
• Antioxidants in pigmented and white rice
• T2-HT2 mycotoxins
• Characterization of starch of several barley strains
