Research

In academia, I had responsibilities as a lecturer and principal investigator (PI). As PI, I designed and secured funding for multi-year research projects where the primary output was research papers.

There is a list of my publications on Google Scholar and they fall under the following general themes.

Formulated nutrition

Projects at the interface of food technology and human nutrition:

• Thermo-reversible protein gels for cancer nutrition
• Polyphenol-enriched sports drinks for high-performance athletes

Manufacturing operations

Projects on novel processing techniques or strategies:

• Hydrocyclones for mineral recovery from food waste
• Reversibly changing protein structure to help purify proteins with filters
• 3D printing for replicating food structures

Powder science

Projects on increasing the functionality of dried ingredients:

• Monitoring and predicting dissolution rates with acoustic methods
• Characterising the effect of composition on the flow and stability of nutritional powders

Wildcards

Projects that were a radical departure from my academic speciality, causing much confusion among the professoriate:

• Analysis of metaphors relating to food and sustainability
• Developing and applying interactive visualisations for teaching physics concepts