Geraldine Giacinti's Biography

Geraldine Giacinti, Researcher, Institute National Polytechnique de Toulouse

Geraldine Giacinti is a researcher at the Laboratoire de Chimie Agroindustrielle of the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT, France) since 1998. She has developed there experience in analytical chemistry involving GC, HPLC, HPTLC, UV, FTIR, RMN and mass spectrometry. She started working on essential oils, emissions of volatile organic compounds by sewage treatment plants and on aromas by authentification of black truffle with regards to composition, geographical origin and adulteration. She often works on solvents' substitution within the REACH legislation and on lipids oxidative degradation in food matrices. She is also involved in several activities of fractionation of natural raw materials (vegetal and animal matrices) and development of methods for the analysis of molecules of interest like polyphenols, pesticides, peptides, polysaccharides... She has a strong experience of academic and industrial partnerships.