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Adjunct Professor (Profesora Adjunto) / SNI researcher
Research group :
Departamento de Bioingeniería, Facultad de Ingeniería
Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay.

e-mail: mvila [at] fing [dot] edu [dot] uy


Education

2015-2021 Doctorate in Chemical Engineering, Universidad de la República, Uruguay (ANII/CAP scholarship).

2018 - Research intership, Laboratorio de Fitoquímica de los Alimentos, Instituto de la Grasa (CSIC), Sevilla, España (ANII scholarship).

2006-2012 Food Engineer, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Research

Journal publications

2023 - Paula Mapelli-Brahm, Patricia Gómez-Villegas, Mariana Lourdes Gonda, Antonio León-Vaz, Rosa León, Jennifer Mildenberger, Céline Rebours, Verónica Saravia, Silvana Vero, Eugenia Vila, Antonio J. Meléndez-Martínez, Microalgae, Seaweeds and Aquatic Bacteria, Archaea, and Yeasts: Sources of Carotenoids with Potential Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Health-Promoting Actions in the Sustainability Era, Marine Drugs, 21(6): 340.

2021 - Laura Camesasca, Juan Andrés de Mattos, Eugenia Vila, Florencia Cebreiros, Claudia Lareo. Lactic acid production by Carnobacterium sp. isolated from a maritime Antarctic lake using eucalyptus enzymatic hydrolysate, Biotechnology Reports, 31 e00643.


2020 - Eugenia Vila, Dámaso Hornero-Méndez, Claudia Lareo, Verónica Saravia. Biotechnological production of zeaxanthin by an Antarctic conditions Flavobacterium: Evaluation of culture. Journal of Biotechnology, 319, 54-60.

2019 - Eugenia Vila, Dámaso Hornero-Méndez, Gastón Azziz, Claudia Lareo, Verónica Saravia. Carotenoids from heterotrophic bacteria isolated from fildes peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica. Biotechnology Reports, 21 e00306.




Teaching

  • Biochemical Engineering (Course for Chemical Engineering and Food Engineering majors)

  • Bioprocess Engineering (Course of Biotechnology postgraduate program).

  • Biorefinery - Fuels and chemicals from biomass via fermentation (Course of Engineering posgraduate programs).

  • Search for natural compounds with biotechnological applications (Basic Sciences Development Program (Programa de Desarrollo de las ciencias básicas (PEDEClBA) ).