Benu Adhikari
RMIT University
Biography
Professor Adhikari鈥檚 education and professional career have always centred around various aspects of Food. He obtained his bachelor's (Jiangnan University, China) and master's (AIT, Thailand) degrees in Food Engineering and PhD in Chemical Engineering with a Food Engineering focus (UQ, Australia). He worked briefly as a Research Engineer at Ecoles Des Mines (Albi, France) and as a Visiting Lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Singapore). He was the recipient of the Australian Research Council鈥檚 prestigious fellowships. He has taught and researched at multiple universities in Australia. Currently, he is working as a research-teaching professor at RMIT University. His research has a strong focus on material science, engineering and processing aspects of food including food proteins, food packaging, food powders and new food ingredients. His publications cover 鈥榩rocess-composition-structure-function鈥� aspects of food. (To date) he has published 373 refereed journal papers and 15 book chapters. His publications have attracted >19,000 citations (Google Scholar) and his current H-index is 78. Professor Adhikari also serves on the Editorial Boards of multiple journals of the Food Science/Eng discipline. Prof Adhikari has a strong track record in supervising and mentoring PhD scholars and postdoctoral fellows.
RSC affiliations
Editorial Board, Sustainable Food Technology