Sustainable Food Waste Management (eBook)

Dr. Monika Thakur is an Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Food Technology since 2009. She was awarded Ph.D. in 2006 by Himachal Pradesh University. She is Double Gold medalist (M.Sc & M.Phil) and received several prestigious awards as Post Graduate studies Himachal Pradesh (2004); Himalayan Research Scholar Association (2007); Wiley Research Academy (2017) and Young Scientist Award, IITT 2020. She has also worked on various research projects as SRF, and JRF at Himachal Pradesh University. Her area of expertise is Plant Sciences, Mycology, Functional foods & Nutraceuticals.  Apart from her teaching assignments, she has been involved in various research and extension activities. She has guided more than 22 Dissertations and 2 students have completed Ph.D. under her guidance. She is a member of editorial board and reviewer in Journals of national and international repute.  She has done two Industrial consultancy and currently one DST sanctioned project is running. She has published more than 40 research publications, 1 patent, 20 book chapters, 5 books, 01 compendium and presented more than 35 papers. She has also organized various Training programme, Faculty Development programmes, National conferences and national seminar. She has completed certificate course in Food Safety Management systems ISO: 22000:2004. She is also a certified Food Safety Trainer for the FoSTaC (Food Safety Training & Certification) programme conducted by FSSAI, GoI.

 Dr. Renu Deepak is  an M. Tech. and Ph.D. in  Food Technology. She is an Assistant Professor at Amity Institute of Food Technology since 2008. She was awarded Ph.D. for her research on 'Development of process technologies and shelf life studies on traditional food adjuncts native to Central India'. Her research areas are traditional foods, food engineering  and  food packaging. She has more than 12 years of experience in teaching and industry.  She has published 7 research papers in reputed journals, 5 book chapters and 35 papers presented in conferences. She has guided 7 M.Tech. projects and 8 M.Sc. dissertations and is guiding two Ph.D. scholars at present.  She has completed certificate course in Food Safety Management systems ISO: 22000:2004. She is also a certified Food Safety Trainer for the FoSTaC (Food Safety Training & Certification)  programme  conducted by FSSAI, GoI.

Dr. Karuna graduated in Home Science Honors in Foods and Nutrition from Vanasthali Vidyapeeth , Rajasthan in 1995.  Subsequently she passed her M.Sc. Foods and Nutrition with gold medal from Vanasthali Vidhyapeeth in 1997. She started her career at GDMG (PG) college as lecturer Foods and Nutrition 2000. She has done her PhD from CCS university in 2008. She joined Amity Institute of Food Technology in 2011. She is Certified Food Safety Management System Professional, Training conducted by British Standard Institute in 2013. She has a teaching experience of more than 16 years. She has supervised dissertations, major projects, Summer trainings, internships, seminar, term paper for M.Sc. Foods and Nutrition, M. Tech. (Food. Tech.)  and B. Tech (Food. Tech.) students. She is a supervisor for 6 PhD scholars. She has more than 35 publications National and International journals and 20 paper presentations in conferences, 8 book chapters, 01 patents (filed). She is a member of the Editorial Board and reviewer of various reputed journals. She has been engaged in various industrial projects and an active member in organizing Faculty Development programmes and national seminar.