Kumar Mallikarjunan

Ph.D., Professor
He/Him
[email protected]
6126243224

1334 Eckles Ave
225 FSCN
St. Paul, MN 55108
United States

Education

Ph.D. at University of Guelph

External Affiliations

President of the Society of Food Engineering

Areas of Interest

  • Food process engineering, process modeling, and optimization.
  • Non-contact, non-destructive sensing and extraction of phytochemicals. 
  • Electronic nose, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.
  • Novel processing technologies (PEF and Cold Plasma)
  • Dairy processing and characterization
  • Extraction of phytochemicals (MW and Ultrasound)

Research

Current research projects include pulsed electric field processing of dairy proteins, cold plasma treatment of chili peppers, raw milk and sugar beets, spectroscopic characterization of dairy powders and giant magnetic resonance based detection of food borne pathogens.

Select Publications

Experts@Minnesota Research Profile

Honors and Awards

2020 IFT Fellow