Chia Seeds: Applications in the Agri-food Industry

Dr Shivani Pathania is a Research Officer at the Food Industry Development Department, Teagasc, Food Research Centre, Ashtown, Dublin, Ireland. Dr Pathania’s research interests include food packaging, novel food processing technologies, ingredient interactions especially starch and protein ingredients. She has good experience in the area of scalable processes and thermal and non- thermal separation and processing techniques in improving process efficiency, waste product utilization and new product development. She has published more than 20 peer reviewed articles and co-edited books and currently supervises more than 4 PhD students, 1 Post Doc etc. Recently, Dr Pathania received SPRINT AWARD 2023 for her recognition of clean green packaging technology.

Dr Milica Pojić 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.

Dr. Tiwari is a lecturer within the School of Food Science & Environmental Health, TU Dublin, Ireland. She has extensively worked in the areas of grain processing, utilisation of by-products, innovative ingredients-based food product development and sustainable food systems, risk assessment, farm to fork modelling. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals, co-edited a book and guest edited two special issues. She is also a professional member of the American Society for Nutrition and Cereals & Grains Association.