Structure-Function Analysis of Edible Fats

Alejandro Marangoni is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Food and Soft Materials Science at the University of Guelph. His work concentrates on the physical properties of foods, particularly fat crystallization and structure. He has published over 200 refereed research articles and six books. He is the recipient of many awards including a 1999 Premier’s Research Excellence Award, the first Young Scientist Award from the AOCS (2000), a Canada Research Chair (2001, renewed in 2006), two Distinguished Researcher Awards from the Ontario Innovation Trust (2002), a Career Award from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (2002), an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2002)—given to the top six Canadian scientists from all disciplines—and the T.L. Mounts Award from AOCS in 2004. Dr. Marangoni is a past chair of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Plant Biology and Food Science Grant Selection Committee, member of NSERC’s E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship selection committee, Editor-in-Chief of Food Research International (Elsevier), an Associate Editor of the JAOCS (Springer), and an editorial board member of Food and Function (RSC), Food Digestion (Springer) and CyTA—The Journal of Food (Taylor and Francis). Dr. Marangoni has co-founded three high-technology companies and is the co-recipient of the 2008 Guelph Partners of Innovation “Innovator of the Year” award for his discovery of a platform technology for the manufacture of structured oil-in-water emulsions. Dr. Marangoni has recently been appointed a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Food, Health, and Aging.

1. Characterization of the Nanostructure of Triacylglycerol Crystal Networks 2. Nucleation and Crystallization Kinetics of Fats 3. Powder X-ray Diffraction of Triglycerides in the Study of Polymorphism 4. Melting and Solidification of Fats 5. Rheology and Mechanical Properties of Fats 6. Nonlinear Rheology of Fats Using Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear Tests 7. Modeling Interactions in Edible Fats 8. Oil Migration Through Fats-Quantification and Its Relationship to Structure 9. Ultra-Small Angle X-ray Scattering: A Technique to Study Soft Materials 10. Fat Crystallization and Structure in Bakery, Meat, and Cheese Systems 11. Methods Used in the Study of the Physical Properties of Fats