Memorial descritivo

Abstract

This Descriptive Memorial systematizes the academic and professional trajectory and the main achievements of Prof. Dr. Érika Maria Marcondes Tassi de Ávila e Silva, encompassing teaching, research, extension, management, and assistance activities, in compliance with the requirements for promotion from Associate Professor, Level IV, to Full Professor in the Federal Higher Education Teaching Career. Prior to joining the faculty of the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), she worked as a nutritionist for the Municipal Government of Amparo (SP), taught in the Nutrition program at UNESP–Botucatu, and served as a municipal employee at the Department of Education of Poços de Caldas (MG), with activities focused on school meals. Since 2010, at UFU, she has continuously contributed to the university’s core mission in the field of Food Science, teaching courses in the Undergraduate Program in Nutrition at the School of Medicine (FAMED) and, likewise, in the Biotechnology and Biomedicine programs at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBIN). Her technical and scientific output includes the authorship of a work on the principles of bromatology in Food Science and the book Receitas da Feirinha. In research, she has supervised undergraduate scientific initiation and graduate-level projects, with results consolidated in publications in national and international scientific journals. In graduate education, she has contributed since 2021 as a collaborator in the Graduate Program in Food Engineering at UFU, reaAirming her commitment to human resource development and to the advancement of scientific knowledge in the field.