Ferreiro Balbuena Omayra Beatriz

Omayra Beatriz Ferreiro Balbuena is a researcher in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, and in the bio and materials group, Polytechnic Faculty of the National University of Asunción (UNA), Paraguay. She earned a graduate degree in chemical engineering at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of UNA, where she also teaches science and resistance of materials, and characterization of materials. From the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she earned her MsC degree in metallurgical and materials engineering, and her DSc degree in chemical engineering. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Her research interests cover membrane science and technology for food applications and wastewater treatment; the fabrication of polymeric materials for food packaging; and biomedical applications such as drug release systems. She has studied the use of waste to extract compounds of interest to industry, including the extraction of dyes such as anthocyanins, and other bioactive compounds for the food industry, as well as the extraction of collagen from fish skin.