Giuseppe Muratore

Associate Professor of Food science and technology [AGRI-07/A]

During his research activity the Author has produced more than 180 publications on qualified international and national journals, book chapters, Guest Editor in special issue (Food MDPI) and on congress proceedings. Moreover, he collaborates with various international scientific journals as a referee. Reported papers: 95; Sum of the Times Cited: 1389; H-index: 22; source: Scopus, accessed on March 9th, 2022; Reported papers: 97; Sum of the Times Cited: 1202; H-index: 20; source: WoS, accessed on March 9th, 2022; Reported papers: 180; Sum of the Times Cited: 2060; H-index: 26; source: Google Scholar, accessed on March 9th, 2022.

His research is focused on food packaging, following as principal aim the reduction of volumes used for the packaging of foods through the evaluation of films at reduced thickness compared to conventional ones, with the aim of reducing the use of materials without compromising the packed produce quality.

The main research areas of Prof. Muratore are the following: study and extension of the shelf life of food products through the design of suitable packaging systems; optimization of packaging systems for fresh-cut fruit; study of the interactions between food and packaging materials, with special regards for the study of sorption mechanisms of aroma compounds by plastic films; study of transformation processed in the food industry and their influence on the quality of food products; determination of nutritional and chemical-physical characteristics of foods.

Prof. Giuseppe Muratore achieved the degree in Agricultural Science 110/110 cum laude in 1990 at the University of Catania; since 2015 he is associate professor in 07/F1 “Food Science and Technology, in the AGR/15 sector – Food Science and Technologies, at the Department Di3A – Section of Food Technologies, University of Catania.

In March 2017 achieved the National Scientific qualification as full professor in the Italian higher education system, in the call 2016/2018 (Ministerial Decree n. 1532/2016) for the disciplinary field of 07/F1 – Food Science and Technology. (Academic Recruitment Field 07/F - Food Science and Technology, according to the national classification - validity of the qualification: nine years).

Since 1999 he has been a member of the PhD Council; actually International PhD of “Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science”.

From the academic year 1997/98 he has carried out an intense teaching activity; at present he is teacher of “Food Packaging” in the master degree course in Food Science and Technology (LM70), “Food technology processes” in the degree course in Food Science and Technology (L26), and "Process for agri-food industry" in the degree course in Biotechnology (L2).

Has tutored numerous thesis and apprenticeships, he was also supervisor for either Italian and foreign students, both in masters and PhD degree, as well as tutoring stages of foreign students at the University of Catania, also he was mentor to foreign visiting professor. He covered some institutional academic roles: from 2016 to 2020 he was the President of the Food Science and Technology course (L26). He has made agreements with some universities of Brazil.

Prof. Muratore has participated, as a member of the research teams, to several research projects and, in the latest years, has coordinated scientific groups in research of public and private interest.

Additionally, he has been scientific responsible of research units in project of competitive researches (6); in PSR project (Piano Sviluppo Rurale) (2); as well as responsible of research on university funds projects (3).

Numerous are the scientific collaborations with other academic groups among these the University of Foggia, the University of Milan, the University of Pisa, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Moreover, he is a referee for many local agri-food companies. He has been member of the Italian Society of Food Science and Technologies (SISTAL) since 2003, and member of the Directive Council of the Italian Scientific Group of Food Packaging (GSICA) since 2004. In 2005 he received the Scientific Productivity Award “Food Packaging Research –GSICA awards”.

Results of VQR 2004-2010:3 on 3

Results of VQR 2011-2014:2 on 2

Results of VQR 2011-2014:

  1. classe A (Eccellente ed estremamente rilevante)
  2. classe B (Eccellente)
  3. classe A (Eccellente ed estremamente rilevante)
  4. classe B (Eccellente)

You can see the list of major publications click on the following links:

Scopus

https://www.scopus.com/results/results.uri?sort=plf-f&src=s&st1=Muratore&st2=Giuseppe&nlo=1&nlr=20&nls=count-f&sid=296d2e0380f04f586925e8650e8aa549&sot=anl&sdt=aut&sl=38&s=AU-ID%28%22Muratore%2c+Giuseppe%22+8623373500%29&txGid=efc03ffc31add082261912eba166ab17

CINECA IRIS

https://www.iris.unict.it/simple-search?query=muratore

Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=7Ulk6h4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

ORCID:

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3676-7580

Last edit: 04/30/2024

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The main research areas of Prof.. Muratore are summarized hereafter:

  • Study and extension of the shelf life of food products through the design of suitable packaging systems;
  • Optimization of packaging systems for fresh-cut fruit;
  • Study of the interactions between food and packaging materials, with special regards for the study of sorption mechanisms of aroma compounds by plastic films;
  • Study of processing in the food industry and their influence on the quality of food products;
  • Determination of nutritional and chemical-physical characteristics of foods.