Marcus Forte is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Food Engineering (FEA) of UNICAMP. His PhD and post-doctoral research in Food Engineering were carried out at UNICAMP, and a part of his research was carried out at Université Blaise Pascal (France). Dr. Forte has experience in the Food Engineering area, with emphasis on Bioprocess Engineering. His research focuses on (i) Downstream Processing, (ii) Alternative processes for lignocellulose biomass pretreatment (ionic liquids) and its biotechnological application (fermentation and enzymatic reactions), and (iii) Detoxification of conventional lignocellulose biomass hydrolysate (adsorption). Additionally, Dr. Forte has worked with Design of experiments and process optimization by Response Surface Analysis methodology