Farayde Matta Fakhouri is a Food Engineer and Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, and co-founder of Bio2Coat, a deep-tech startup focused on sustainable food packaging solutions to reduce food waste and environmental impact while enabling scalable industrial applications.
With a strong academic background in materials science and food engineering, her work bridges research and innovation, focusing on the development of biodegradable materials and edible coatings from renewable sources. Passionate about transforming science into real-world solutions, she operates at the interface between academia and industry, leading projects that promote circular economy principles and sustainable technologies in the food sector.