Laura Bayes Garcia

Senior lecturer

Scopus Author ID: 35772543300

Researcher ID: M-1934-2014

Knowledge area: Cristal.lografia i Mineralogia

Research group: Structure and Materials Desing

Contact Information
Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Applied Geology
c/ Martí i Franquès s/n
934021350
laurabayes(a)ub.edu

My profile

Dr. Laura Bayés-García graduated in Chemistry at the University of Barcelona (2006). She also graduated in Food Science and Technology at the same university (2008), from which she won the Extraordinary Degree Award. In 2009, she got the Master Degree in Crystallography and Crystallization (Ph.D. Programme) at the Menendez Pelayo International University. On 2013, she graduated her Ph.D. thesis on the Polymorphism and Solid State Miscibility of Triacylglycerols and its Application to Food Authentication, which was co-supervised by Prof. Miquel Àngel Cuevas-Diarte and Dr. Teresa Calvet Pallàs and carried out at the Department of Crystallography, Mineralogy and Mineral Deposits, where she has been working on crystallography research since 2002. For her PhD, she enjoyed a FPU (Formación de Profesorado Universitario) scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education of the Spanish Government. This PhD thesis was located in the setting of the Consolider-Ingenio Program 'La Factoría Cristalográfica'. She has performed several stays abroad, including the Laboratory of Food Biophysics of the Hiroshima University, under the guidance of Prof. Kiyotaka Sato and Prof. Satoru Ueno, who are worldwide recognized in the lipids crystallography area. During this period, she carried out several stays in the synchrotron radiation facility Photon Factory (PF) at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba (Japan), where she performed many SAXD and WAXD macro- and micro-beam experiments. For that, she attended several training courses concerning radiological protection and the effects of radiation in biological tissues and had to pass several examinations.
Her scientific activity is devoted to the Polymorphism and Solid State Miscibility of organic compounds, such as carboxylic acids and triacylglycerols, although she also worked on microencapsulated materials for energy storage. Nowadays, she is a researcher in the lipids field, more concretely in the rising edible fats and oils area. She published several scientific papers on these topics in high-level international journals, and she also published one book chapter. She is a referee of Polymer Bulletin, Chemical Engineering Journal, Applied Polymer Science, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, Chemical Communications, and Science of Advanced Materials Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. She has participated in several research projects (MAT from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, XaRMAE from the Generalitat de Catalunya, La UB Divulga from FECYT, Grup Consolidat Cristal¿lografia from the Generalitat de Catalunya,...).
She tutored one master course and worked as teaching assistant in Thermodynamics and Crystallography (2009-2013) at the University of Barcelona.
She was lecturer in several national and international conferences, and organizer in some national crystallographic activities for high-school students. As to some dissemination activities, she was lecturer of several conferences, carried out in the Chocolate Museum and the Blue Museum of Barcelona, and the Food Nutrition Torribera Campus of the University of Barcelona - info

Academic Training

Llicenciada en Química . Universitat de Barcelona . 28/11/2006 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Llicenciada en Ciència i Tecnologia dels Aliments (Premi Extraordinari de Llicenciatura) . Universitat de Barcelona . 22/07/2008 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Polymorphism and Solid State Miscibility of Triacylglycerols. Application to Food Authentication . Universitat de Barcelona . 2013 . (Ph.D.)

Master in Crystallography and Crystallization . Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo . 2009 . (Official Master)

European Gemmologist (FEEG) . Federation for European Education in Gemmology (FEEG) . 2016 . (Specialized Training)

Gemmologia . Facultat de Geologia (Universitat de Barcelona) . 2016 . (Specialized Training)

Research interests

Polymorphic characterization of triacylglycerols present in edible fats and oils and their mixtures (binary and multicomponent systems)

Phase behavior determination of binary mixtures of triacylglycerols

Study of the physico-chemical properties of lipid-based food products with the aim of improving their rheological properties (e.g. chocolate)

Autentificació i determinació de fraus en productes alimentaris

Projects

Cristalografía de productos alimentarios con base lipídica: investigación básica y aplicada . 2016 - 2018 . Ref.MAT2015-65756-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Maria Teresa Calvet Pallas

Autenticació, Traçabilitat i Seguretat Alimentària (AUTENFOOD) . 2016 - 2018 . Ref.COMRDI15-1-0035-01 . ACCIÓ. Agència de Suport a l'Empresa Catalana . PI: Stefania Vichi; Alba Tres Oliver

Structure and Materials Design . 2017 - 2019 . Ref.2017 SGR 1687 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Elies Molins Grau

Doctorats industrials 2017. Empresa: Laboratorios Lesvi, S.L . 2017 - 2019 . Ref.2017DI023 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Maria Teresa Calvet Pallas; Laura Bayes Garcia

Polymorphic behavior of oleic-rich triacylglycerol mixtures . 2019 - 2019 . Ref.2019023268 . Sincrotró ALBA - CELLS . PI: Laura Bayes Garcia

Journal Publications

Bayés-García, L.; Calvet, T.; Cuevas-Diarte, M.A.; Ueno, S. (2017). From trioleoyl glycerol to extra virgin olive oil through multicomponent triacylglycerol mixtures: crystallization and polymorphic transformation examined with differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction techniques. Food Research International, 99(1), pp. 476 - 484 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0963-9969

Bayes-García, L.; Tres, A.; Vichi, S.; Calvet, T.; Cuevas-Diarte, M.A.; Codony, R.; Boatella, J.; Caixach, J.; Ueno, S.; Guardiola, F. (2016). Authentication of Iberian dry-cured ham: New approaches by polymorphic fingerprint and ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry. Food Control, 60, pp. 370 - 377 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0956-7135

Bayés-García, L.; Calvet, T.; Cuevas-Diarte, M.A.; Ueno, S. (2016). In situ crystallization and transformation kinetics of polymorphic forms of saturated-unsaturated-unsaturated triacylglycerols: 1-palmitoyl-2,3-dioleoyl glycerol, 1-stearoyl-2,3-dioleoyl glycerol, and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-3-linoleoyl glycerol. Food Research International, 85, pp. 244 - 258 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0963-9969

Bayés-García, L.; Patel, A.; Dewettinck, K.; Rousseau, D.; Sato, K.; Ueno, S. (2015). Lipid crystallization kinetics - roles of external factors influencing functionality of end products. Current Opinion in Food Science, 4, pp. 32 - 38 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2214-7993

Bayés-García, L.; Calvet, T.; Cuevas-Diarte, M.A.; Rovira, E.; Ueno, S.; Sato, K. (2015). New textures of chocolate are formed by polymorphic crystallization and template effects: velvet chocolate. Crystal Growth & Design, 15(8), pp. 4045 - 4054 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1528-7483

Bayés-García, L.; Calvet, T.; Cuevas-Diarte, M.A.; Ueno, S.; Sato, K. (2013). In situ observation of transformation pathways of polymorphic forms of 1,3-dipalmitoyl-2-oleoyl glycerol (POP) examined with synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction and DSC. Crystengcomm, 15, pp. 302 - 314 . https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CE26522B . ISSN: 1466-8033

Bayés-García, L.; Calvet, T.; Cuevas-Diarte, M. A.; Ueno, S.; Sato, K. (2011). In situ synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction study of crystallization kinetics of polymorphs of 1,3-dioleoyl-2-palmitoyl glycerol (OPO). Crystengcomm, 13(10), pp. 3592 - 3599 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1466-8033

Bayés-García, L.; Calvet, T.; Cuevas-Diarte, M.A.; Ueno, S.; Sato, K. (2011). Heterogeneous microstructures of spherulites of lipid mixtures characterized with synchrotron radiation microbeam X-ray diffraction. Crystengcomm, 13(22), pp. 6694 - 6705 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1466-8033

Bayés-García, L.; Ventolà, L.; Cordobilla, R.; Benages, R.; Calvet, T.; Cuevas-Diarte, M.A. (2010). Phase Change Materials (PCM) microcapsules with different shell compositions: Preparation, characterization and thermal stability. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 94(7), pp. 1235 - 1240 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0927-0248

Bayés-García, L.; Aguilar Jimenez, M.; Calvet, T.; Koyano, T.; Sato, K. (2019). Crystallization and Melting Behavior of Cocoa Butter in Lipid Bodies of Fresh Cacao Beans. Crystal Growth & Design, 19(7), pp. 4127 - 4137 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1528-7483

Relevant Activities

Extraordinary Degree Award on the Food Science and Technology Degree

Xavier Solans Award for the best research work published in 2013 (PhD thesis) in the Crystallography and Crystal Growth fields, by a young Spanish researcher