Advances in Biopolymers for Food Science and Technology

Authors

Kunal Pal Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India.. Dr. Kunal Pal is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. His major research interests revolve around biomedical signal processing, biomedical equipment design, soft materials, and controlled drug delivery. He has published more than 100 publications in SCI-cited journals of high repute. Preetam Sarkar Assistant Professor of Food Sciences at the Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India.. Dr. Preetam Sarkar is an Assistant Professor of Food Sciences at the Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Food Sciences from Purdue University, USA. The research at Dr. Sarkar's lab at NIT Rourkela focuses on the development of delivery vehicles such as emulsions, films and coatings, for the protection of bioactive compounds such as antimicrobial agents for food safety applications. He has published 30 articles in SCI journals, 10 book chapters, and co-edited 3 books. Miguel Cerqueira Staff Researcher in the Food Processing and Nutrition group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal.. Dr. Miguel Cerqueira holds a Ph.D. degree in Biological Engineering from the University of Minho (UMinho), Portugal. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded for the best Ph.D. Thesis by the School of Engineering of UMinho, which was focused on edible coatings and films for dairy products. In 2011, he started as a Postdoctoral Researcher focused on the development and characterization of bio-based nanostructures for food applications, where he gained expertise on biodegradable films and coatings for food packaging, encapsulation of functional compounds using emergent encapsulation technologies, and on the development and characterization of emulgels and oleogels for functional foods. In 2016, he joined the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory to work in the Food Processing and Nutrition group. Dr. Cerqueira has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 20 book chapters, one patent, and is editor of 3 books. He has supervised more than 15 Ph.D. and MSc students. Since 2010, he has been involved in several entrepreneurship programs and, in 2013, co-founded a company. In 2014 he won the Young Scientist Award organized by the International Union of Food Science and Technology. In 2018 he joined the list of "Highly Cited Researchers" presented by Clarivate Analytics.