André Rosário

Assistant Professor at NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where he is the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Health and Well-Being Sciences and Technologies.

Within the Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition Sciences, he is responsible for the courses Food Safety, Food Quality and Management Systems, Food Technology and Novel Products, and Research Project. He also teaches in the Master’s degree in Human Nutrition and Metabolism, where he is responsible for the course Dissertation Project. In the Integrated Master’s degree in Medicine, he is part of the teaching team for Public Health and Epidemiology. In the Doctoral Programme in Health and Well-Being Sciences and Technologies, he is responsible for Advanced Studies Seminar in Health and Technologies and Thesis Project in Health and Technologies.

His research focuses on the production and synthesis of scientific evidence on the relationship between lifestyle behaviours and health, with particular emphasis on advanced clinical research methods, including clinical trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and meta-regression.

He is a Full Member of the Portuguese Engineers Association (since 2008), with a Specialisation in Food Engineering and Senior Professional Qualification. He holds a five-year degree in Biological Engineering (pre-Bologna, 2004), with specialisation in Chemical and Food Technology, from the University of Minho; an MSc in Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2007) from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto; and a PhD in Biomedicine (2019) from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.

He collaborates with several national and international institutions, namely the Portuguese Institute for Quality (IPQ), as a member of the Technical Committee for Standardisation CTA 038 – Food Safety Management Systems, the COST Action “Network for Evidence Synthesis in the Agri-Food Sector” (EU-NESA, CA23107), and is an integrated member of the Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC).