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Youssef Elamine is a junior researcher (h-index = 12) with PhD in Biotechnology since 2020, who embarked on a journey that intersects biotechnology and electronic engineering, after joining the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) in 2023. His work, particularly on developing sensor-based approaches for food applications and electrophysiological monitoring of living cells, showcases his dedication to addressing cutting-edge challenges. At an early postdoc stage, Elamine was entrusted with a project with a budget of 29K Euros (11 Months) from the CSIC, Spain. This role tested his project management abilities and deepened his understanding of the synergy between electronic and biological sciences, especially when testing the integrity of cell layers before the determination of bioavailability, and then the nutritional value of food components. The outcome was 4 contributions about the characterization and functional properties determination of food using chemical and cell-based invitro assays. Elamine's dedication to food quality and sustainability became more pronounced through his involvement with competitive grants focusing on seafood safety. His participation in the SeafoodQual and ICHTYS projects at the Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR) was a pivotal moment. These projects, aimed at pioneering real-time monitoring methodologies, and allowed him to apply the vibrational techniques, namely FTIR, demonstrating his commitment to making a difference in food science. Now at the IT, Elamine continues to explore how electronics can be leveraged to solve food and biological challenges. His journey started with two contributions with 2 different multidisciplinary teams: a sensor for the estimation of potassium and botanical classification of honey, and a device for the electrophysiology monitoring of cells during wound healing. Both contributions are undergoing the first round of revision in Food Chemistry and Nature Communications, respectively. During his PhD and postdoc (4 years) journeys, Youssef has gained multidisciplinary and international experience, with proven publication records (24 articles, and 13 participations in international events), and review activities for Scientific reports (Springer Nature), Cosmetics, Antibiotics, and Molecules (MDPI), and Arabian Journal of Chemistry (Elsevier).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Youssef El Amine

Citation names

  • Youssef Elamine

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
421E-A08C-57A2
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8650-1580

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Agrarian Sciences - Agrarian and Food Biotechnology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Arab (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Berber (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2022
Concluded
 Ciências Biotecnológicas (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2020/02/08
Concluded
 Bioactive Molecules, health and Biotecnology (Doctorat)
Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Faculté des Sciences Dhar El Mahraz-Fès, Morocco
"Honey characterisation: from the routinely assessed parameters to chemometrics and e-tongue technology, propolis phytochemical analysis and pharmacological perspectives." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018/11/01
Concluded
 Ciências Biomédicas (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2013/07/31
Concluded
 Biological sciences and Health (Master)
Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Faculté des Sciences Dhar El Mahraz-Fès, Morocco
2007/09/01 - 2011/07/31
Concluded
 Biology (Bachelor)
Major in Physiology and pharmacology
Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Faculté des Sciences Dhar El Mahraz-Fès, Morocco
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/01/02 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de Telecomunicações Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2016/07/01 - 2019/06/01 IMPLANTABLE ORGANIC DEVICES FOR ADVANCED THERAPIES (INNOVATE)
PTDC/EEI-AUT/5442/2014
Research Fellow
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/12/15 - 2022/12/15 APLICAÇÃO DE TECNOLOGIAS INOVADORAS E SUSTENTÁVEIS DE PROCESSAMENTO E DE MONITORIZAÇÃO DE QUALIDADE DE PRODUTOS ALIMENTARES DO MAR
SEAFOODQual
Post-doc
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2019/04/01 - 2021/12/31 Actividade antioxidante y antiproliferativa de mieles de Marruecos
COOPA20254
Researcher
Instituto de la Grasa Departamento de Fitoquímica de los Alimentos, Spain
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2021/04/01 - Current EISuFood - Study about food habits and knowledge about edible insects as sustainable foods
EISuFood
Post-doc
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Youssef Elamine; Resende, A.; Smail, S; Paulo, L.; Badiâa, L.; Antunes, P.; Estevinho, Leticia M.; Miguel, MG; Anjos, Ofélia. "Carbohydrate profile in honey with diferent provenaces". Paper presented in 11th International Meeting of Portuguese Carbohydrate Chemistry Group, 2015.
Conference poster
  1. Anjos, Liliana; Pinto, Patricia; Theophana Tsironi; João CR Cardoso; Youssef Elamine; Canario, A.; Power, Deborah Mary. "Foodomics, biosensors and spectroscopy 4 food quality & safety". Paper presented in Ciência 2023 ¿ Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal, 2023.
  2. Anjos L; Youssef Elamine; Pinto PIS; Lima P, ; Couto E; Canário AVM; Power DM. "Rapid and non-destructive monitoring of fish freshness using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).". Paper presented in 36th EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and technology) international conference, 7-9 November, Dublin, Irland., 2022.
  3. Youssef Elamine; Anjos, Liliana; Pinto, Patricia; Patricia Lima; Elsa Couto; Adelino Canario; Deborah M. Power. "Elamine E, Anjos L, Pinto PIS, Lima P, Couto E, Canário AVM, Power DM (2022). Rapid and non-destructive monitoring of fish freshness using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). 36th EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and technology) International Conference, November 7-9, Dublin, Ireland.". Paper presented in 36th EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and technology) International Conference,, 2022.
  4. Youssef Elamine. "O mel Zantaz de origem marroquina: A relação pólen-parâmetros físico-químicos". Paper presented in Encontro nacional das escolas agrarias, 2019.
  5. Youssef Elamine. "Volatiles characterization of honey with dominance of Bupleurum spinosum pollen". Paper presented in 6th world congress on medicinal and Aromatic Plants, 2019.
  6. Youssef Elamine. "Physicochemical parameters, pollen analysis, and mineral content followed by principal component analysis for Bupleurum sp honey discrimination". Paper presented in The First International Conference on Apiculture, Hive Products and Sustainable Development, 2018.
  7. Youssef Elamine. "Electronic tongue for certification of honey". Paper presented in TechDays Conferen, 2015.
  8. Youssef Elamine. "Carbohydrate profile in honey with different provenances". Paper presented in 11th International Meeting of the Portuguese Carbohydrate Group; 6th Iberian Carbohydrate Meeting, 2015.
  9. Youssef Elamine. "The effect of heat processing on Bupleurum spinosum honey antioxidant activities". Paper presented in Deuxième Symposium International d’Api-phytothérapie: " Api-qualité & Api-recherche, 2014.
  10. Youssef Elamine. "Phenolic, melanoidins content and anti- oxidant activities of 12 Bupleurum spinosum monofloral honey". Paper presented in Api- phytotherapy Api-research for sustainable development, 2014.
Journal article
  1. Youssef Elamine; Alexandra M. Machado; Letícia M. Estevinho; Badiâa Lyoussi; Ana Cristina Figueiredo; Maria Graça Miguel. "Volatile characterization of honey with dominance of Bupleurum spinosum pollen". Journal of Apicultural Research (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2232124.
    10.1080/00218839.2023.2232124
  2. "Organic food consumption and eating habit in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown". Open Agriculture 7 1 (2022): 21-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opag-2022-0064.
    10.1515/opag-2022-0064
  3. Youssef Elamine; Manuel Alaiz; Julio Girón-Calle; Raquel P. F. Guiné; Javier Vioque. "Nutritional Characteristics of the Seed Protein in 23 Mediterranean Legumes". Agronomy 12 2 (2022): 400-400. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020400.
    10.3390/agronomy12020400
  4. Youssef Elamine; Hamada Imtara; Maria Graça Miguel; Ofélia Anjos; Letícia M. Estevinho; Manuel Alaiz; Julio Girón-Calle; et al. "Antibacterial Activity of Moroccan Zantaz Honey and the Influence of Its Physicochemical Parameters Using Chemometric Tools". Applied Sciences (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/app11104675.
    10.3390/app11104675
  5. Youssef Elamine; Badiaa Lyoussi; Maria G. Miguel; Ofélia Anjos; Letícia Estevinho; Manuel Alaiz; Julio Girón-Calle; Jesús Martín; Javier Vioque. "Physicochemical characteristics and antiproliferative and antioxidant activities of Moroccan Zantaz honey rich in methyl syringate". Food Chemistry 339 (2021): 128098-128098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.128098.
    10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.128098
  6. Fatima Zahra Jawhari; Abdelfattah E. L. Moussaoui; Mohammed Bourhia; Hamada Imtara; Hamza Saghrouchni; Kenza Ammor; Hayat Ouassou; et al. "Anacyclus pyrethrum var. pyrethrum (L.) and Anacyclus pyrethrum var. depressus (Ball) Maire: Correlation between Total Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents with Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Chemically Characterized Extracts". Plants 10 1 (2021): 149-149. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10010149.
    10.3390/plants10010149
  7. Elamine, Youssef; Torres-Salas, Verenice; Messai, Alima; Girón-Calle, Julio; Alaiz, Manuel; Vioque, Javier. "Purification, Characterization, and Antiproliferative Activity of a Single-Chain Lectin from Vicia palaestina (Fabaceae) Seeds". Chemistry & Biodiversity 18 2 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbdv.202000827.
    10.1002/cbdv.202000827
  8. Nawal El Menyiy; Mourad Akdad; Youssef Elamine; Badiaa Lyoussi. "Microbiological Quality, Physicochemical Properties, and Antioxidant Capacity of Honey Samples Commercialized in the Moroccan Errachidia Region". Journal of Food Quality (2020): https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/7383018.
    10.1155/2020/7383018
  9. Vioque, J.; Girón-Calle, J.; Torres-Salas, V.; Elamine, Y.; Alaiz, M.. "Characterization of Vicia ervilia (bitter vetch) seed proteins, free amino acids, and polyphenols". Journal of Food Biochemistry (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85084436053&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jfbc.13271
  10. Soukaina El-Guendouz; Soumia Zizi; Youssef Elamine; Badiaa Lyoussi. "July-2020". Veterinary World (2020): https://doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2020.1327-1333.
    10.14202/vetworld.2020.1327-1333
  11. Elamine, Y.; Anjos, O.; Estevinho, L.M.; Lyoussi, B.; Aazza, S.; Miguel, M.G.. "Effect of extreme heat processing on the Moroccan Zantaz’ honey antioxidant activities". Journal of Food Science and Technology (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85084076395&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s13197-020-04365-x
  12. Ettamimi, S.; Carlier, J.D.; Cox, C.J.; Elamine, Y.; Hammani, K.; Ghazal, H.; Costa, M.C.. "A meta-taxonomic investigation of the prokaryotic diversity of water bodies impacted by acid mine drainage from the São Domingos mine in southern Portugal". Extremophiles 23 6 (2019): 821-834. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85073627708&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00792-019-01136-1
  13. Elamine, Y.; Inácio, P.M.C.; Lyoussi, B.; Anjos, O.; Estevinho, L.M.; da Graça Miguel, M.; Gomes, H.L.. "Insight into the sensing mechanism of an impedance based electronic tongue for honey botanic origin discrimination". Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical 285 (2019): 24-33. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85059812759&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.snb.2019.01.023
  14. Elamine, Y.; Lyoussi, B.; Anjos, O.; Estevinho, L.M.; Aazza, S.; Carlier, J.D.; Costa, M.C.; Miguel, M.G.. "Zantaz honey “monoflorality”: Chemometric applied to the routinely assessed parameters". LWT 106 (2019): 29-36. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85061785872&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.lwt.2019.02.039
  15. Dra, L.A.; Rodrigues, M.J.; da Rosa Neng, N.; Nogueira, J.M.F.; Elamine, Y.; Aghraz, A.; Markouk, M.; Larhsini, M.; Custódio, L.. "Exploring Caralluma europaea (Guss.) N.E.Br. as a potential source of bioactive molecules: In vitro antioxidant and antidiabetic properties, and phenolic profile of crude extracts and fractions". Industrial Crops and Products 139 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85068855820&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.indcrop.2019.111527
  16. Imtara, H.; Elamine, Y.; Lyoussi, B.. "Honey Antibacterial Effect Boosting Using Origanum vulgare L. Essential Oil". Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2018 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85045049992&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1155/2018/7842583
  17. Imtara, H.; Elamine, Y.; Lyoussi, B.. "Physicochemical characterization and antioxidant activity of Palestinian honey samples". Food Science and Nutrition 6 8 (2018): 2056-2065. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85053393309&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/fsn3.754
  18. Elamine, Y.; Aazza, S.; Lyoussi, B.; Dulce Antunes, M.; Estevinho, L.M.; Anjos, O.; Resende, M.; Faleiro, M.L.; Miguel, M.G.. "Preliminary characterization of a Moroccan honey with a predominance of Bupleurum spinosum pollen,Caracterización preliminar de una miel marroquí con predominio del polen de Bupleurum spinosum". Journal of Apicultural Research 57 1 (2018): 153-165. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85009997011&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/00218839.2016.1265759
  19. Aazza, S.; Elamine, Y.; El-Guendouz, S.; Lyoussi, B.; Antunes, M.D.; Estevinho, L.M.; Anjos, O.; et al. "Physicochemical characterization and antioxidant activity of honey with Eragrostis spp. pollen predominance". Journal of Food Biochemistry 42 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85030633272&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jfbc.12431
  20. Amine, Youssef. "Antioxidant and diuretic activity of co-administration of Capparis spinosa honey and propolis in comparison to furosemide.". Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29111193.
    10.1016/j.apjtm.2017.09.009
  21. Amine, Youssef. "Extracellular Electrophysiological Measurements of Cooperative Signals in Astrocytes Populations.". Frontiers in neural circuits (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29109679.
    10.3389/fncir.2017.00080
  22. Inacio, P.M.C.; Mestre, A.L.G.; De Medeiros, M.D.C.R.; Asgarifar, S.; Elamine, Y.; Canudo, J.; Santos, J.M.A.; et al. "Bioelectrical Signal Detection Using Conducting Polymer Electrodes and the Displacement Current Method". IEEE Sensors Journal 17 13 (2017): 3961-3966. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85020945526&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/JSEN.2017.2703834
Preprint
  1. Henrique Leonel Gomes; Rute Félix; Maria Medeiros; Youssef Elamine; Deborah Power. "Extracellular Bioelectrical Lexicon: Detecting Rhythmic Patterns within Dermal Fibroblast Populations". 2023. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3286884/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-3286884/v1
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2018/02/01 Uma língua electrónica para a discriminação da origem floral do mel Congresso ibérico da apicultura
(Coimbre, Portugal)
2017/04/01 A apicultura no Maghreb Jornadas apículas de Monsanto
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/01/01 A apicultura no norte da Àfrica! Jornadas apículas de Avis melífera
(Avis, Portugal)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2013/11/01 - 2016/09 The scientific Morocco Association Consulting member, Writer of pop science article