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Marco García-Vaquero

Marco García-Vaquero

Europracticum Grant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Director of Food Science Programme | Assistant Professor Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin

  • Education

    • Fundación Pública Escola Galega de Administración Sanitaria (FEGAS)

      2011 - 2011
      Diplomate acredited by the Spanish National Health School Public Health

      The Public Health Programm ended with the public defense of the work based on 6 different units covered in the course:Demography, statistics and epidemiologyPublic health vigilance and alert response and emergenciesResearch and scientific communicationHealth protectionHealth Promotion and Disease Prevention

    • Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

      2000 - 2005
      Bachelor's Degree Veterinary Medicine 2.26 out of 4

      5 years studies for the degree in Veterinary Sciences

    • Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

      2007 - 2011
      Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Veterinary Pathology and Pathobiology Summa cum laude

      Evaluation of mineral supplements fed to beef cattle affect both animals' health and food safety by analyzing the trace elements of animal derived food products that can reach consumers (meat and offal). Dissertation name: " The evaluation of the need of copper supplementation in intensive reared beef cattle".

    • Alumni Association (scholars) of the Barrie Foundation

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    • Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

      2005 - 2007
      Master's Degree Animal Pathology 10 out of 10

      Previously called "Third cycle studies" or "Postgraduate programme".Dissertation: "Trace mineral status and toxic metal accumulation in extensive and intensive pigs in NW Spain." (Published in peer-reviewed Journal).

    • Udima Universidad a Distancia de Madrid

      2012 - 2014
      Master's Degree Masters in Health and Safety, quality control and environmental management. Speciliality: Health and Safety in the workplace

      This programm covers all the fundamental aspects of Health and Safety in the workplace (prevention, notification, administrative documents...), quality control (ISO 9001:2008) and environmental risks (ISO 14001).

  • Experience

    • Stolt Sea Farm

      Oct 2007 - Dec 2007
      Europracticum Grant

      Fish farm general duties (animal care, feeding and cleaning).Water, food and biological samples analyses.

    • Eli Lilly and Company

      Jun 2013 - Feb 2014
      E-marketing analyst

      E-marketing and online medical visit to present pharmaceutical products to practitioners.

    • Teagasc

      Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
      Post-doc researcher TEAGASC

      Screening bioactive peptides from seaweed for functional food applications. This post-doctoral fellowship is granted by The Barrié Foundation in Galicia (Spain) for the period 2014-2016.

    • University College Dublin

      Feb 2016 - Jun 2019
      Postdoctoral Researcher within Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) project

      Within the SFI project "The macroalgae Fibre initiative: natural molecules naturally". Within this project my task during these years will be working in the extraction, purification and characterization of polysaccharide rich extracts from different Irish seaweeds with potential to scale up the processes to the food industry. The potential antioxidant, antibacterial and immunostimulatory effects "in vitro" and "in vivo" of the extracts will also be studied for its future commercialization by a wide variety of Irish companies including food, pharmaceutical or cosmeceutical. Show less

    • Teagasc

      Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
      Research Officer

      Research officer researching opportunities for the exploitation of algae (microalgae and macroalgae) for food applications.

    • University College Dublin

      Jan 2020 - now
      Assistant Professor

      Assistant professor at the section of Food and Nutrition, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • The Data Scientist’s Toolbox

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      May 2014

    • PRINCE2® Foundation in project management

      BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
      Apr 2015

    • PRINCE2® Practitioner In Project Management

      BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
      May 2015

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Galician Translator

      Issued by Twitter on Jan 2017
      TwitterAssociated with Marco García-Vaquero