Professor Jorge Ricardo da Silva is Full Professor of Enology at “Instituto Superior de Agronomia” (ISA) of the “Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa)”. He is the representative for the “Universidade de Lisboa” in the EMaVE Consortium.
Jorge M. Ricardo-da-Silva graduated in Agro-Industrial Engineering in the “Instituto Superior de Agronomia” (ISA) of the “Universidade de Lisboa”(at that time Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, UTL) in 1986, and obtained the Master in the same scientific area and University in 1989. Then, in 1992 , he obtained the PhD degree in “Sciences Agro.Alimentaires, at the Ecole Nationale Supèrieure Agronomique de Montpellier (ENSAM), France. Finally, in 2001, he received the Habilitation degree from ISA/UTL.
In addition to teaching in the Vinifera EuroMaster, Jorge teaches and coordinates the Winemaking (Vinification), Enological Engineering, Chemical Composition and Sensory Analysis of Grapes and Wines modules of the national Master in Viticulture and Enology Engineering, and also teaches in the Food Technology module of the Bsc of Food Engineering at ISA/ULisboa.
He is the coordinator of the PhD program in Food Science and Engineering at ISA/ULisboa.
In addition, he is President of the Commission for the attribution of the Professional Title of Winemaker (“Oenologue”) in Portugal, representing the “Associação Portuguesa de Enologia”.
