Maria Alexandra Sardinha Bernardo

Maria Alexandra Sardinha Bernardo is an Associate Professor at Egas Moniz Higher Education Cooperative CRL and a Researcher at the Egas Moniz Interdisciplinary Research Center, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Nova University of Lisbon (1992) and a Master's in Documentoscopy and Graphology from the University of Barcelona (2021).

• Career: Associate Professor (since 2000), Researcher (since 2016), and member of multiple academic councils.
• Research Focus: Nutrition, environmental health, forensic chemistry, and biomedical applications of natural compounds (e.g., cinnamon, baobab).
• Notable Projects: PDRehab4Hw (handwriting rehabilitation in Parkinson's), cinnamon's glycemic effects, and air pollution-mortality links.

Her work bridges chemistry, nutrition, and public health. Recent studies investigate cinnamon's impact on diabetes, baobab's glycemic control, and ginger's postprandial effects. She also explores forensic handwriting analysis and environmental toxin exposure.

Teaching contributions span forensic sciences and health disciplines, with over 150 academic supervisions. Her research emphasizes translational science, linking lab findings to clinical and societal applications.