Dr. Ivo Mottin Demiate
Associate ProfessorState University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil
Highest Degree
PostDoc. in Starch Chemistry from Iowa State University, USA
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Highest Degree
PostDoc. in Starch Chemistry from Iowa State University, USA
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Dr. Ivo Mottin Demiate has supervised 20 M.Sc. students and one postdoctoral fellow. He develops research, as an Associate Professor, in the field of Food Science and Technology at the State University of Ponta Grossa, Parana State, Brazil and published some 30 papers in the last five years and one book chapter. He has experience and more interest in following the subjects: starch, cassava, polvilho azedo/almidon agrio (sour cassava starch), oxidized starch and coordinates several research projects that received funds from the main Brazilian governmental agencies (CNPq, CAPES, FINEP and Araucaria Foundation). Also he is member of the editorial board of the journal “Brazilian Archives of Biology and Biotechnology” and also member of the Araucaria Foundation technical committee in the area of Agricultural Sciences. As international experience, he had been in Japan (Osaka Municipal and Technical Research Institute) as a JICA (Japanese International Cooperation Agency) scholarship fellow to join the 4-month training course “Enzyme Technology” and also in France (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lille and CIRAD/La Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement, Montpellier) for finishing his Ph.D. thesis, for a period of four months. From early March 2015 to February 2016 he was engaged in a pos doctoral position at Iowa State University/USA.