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Violetta Aru is a biologist with strong expertise in analytical chemistry. Her research focuses on understanding the diet-environment influence on human and animal metabolism. She earned her degree in Biology in 2011 and completed her PhD in Chemical Sciences and Technologies in 2016 at the University of Cagliari, Italy. In 2020, she was appointed as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in High-Throughput NMR Foodomics in the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen. Her current work involves applying ¹H NMR metabolomics to characterize bioactive compounds in agri-food by-products (e.g., olive leaves and myrtle pomace) and in natural matrices like propolis, with an emphasis on their radical scavenging and protective effects against oxidative cellular damage. She identifies metabolic pathways and biomarkers associated with altered digestion and gut inflammation in Atlantic salmon fed plant-based diets using multi-omics approaches. Additionally, she investigates multitrophic and multispecies cultivation systems to optimize food fermentations. Her main research areas include: characterizing the anti-inflammatory and cytoprotective effects of natural antioxidant ingredients and plant extracts in the agro-food industry, developing and validating high-throughput untargeted NMR-based methods linking specific metabolic signatures to food processing methods, fermentation pathways, and potential health outcomes.
Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen • Copenhagen
Focus on High-Throughput NMR Foodomics.
Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen • Copenhagen
Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen • Copenhagen
Focuses on clinical, social, and cognitive psychology.