Industrial Hemp

Dr Milica Pojic is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Food Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her research interests are in the area of new food product development and valorization of food by-products and alternative sustainable raw materials of plant origin. She coordinated several international and bilateral research projects in the area of novel food processing and formulation. Her research outputs include numerous peer-reviewed research publications, chapters, and two co-edited book. She is an editorial board member of two scientific journals: Food and Feed Research and Discover Food. Brijesh K Tiwari is a principal research officer at TEAGASC and adjunct Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland. He obtained his Master’s degree at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (India) in 2003, and his PhD at the University College of Dublin (Ireland) in 2009. He leads a team of 6 postdoctoral researchers/Research officers and 14 PhDs in the area of novel food processing technologies. His research output includes over 200 peer-reviewed research publications and over 100 book chapters. He has also co-edited 14 books and is a book series editor for IFST Advances in Food Science book series. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Food Processing and Preservation.

1. Perspectives of hemp cultivation 2. Hemp breeding and genetics 3. Hemp in agriculture 4. Nutritional and chemical composition of hemp seeds 5. Hemp proteins 6. Hemp seed oil and lipids 7. Nutraceutical potential of hemp 8. Hemp seed oil processing and technology 9. Hemp nutraceutical processing and technology 10. Hemp nutraceutical products and product properties 11. Hemp by-products 12. Hemp in animal feed applications 13. Regulatory aspects of hemp cultivation, processing and trade