Nanotechnology Horizons in Food Process Engineering Volume 1: Food Preservation, Food Packaging, and Sustainable Agriculture

Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the General Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico

Junaid Ahmad Malik, PhD, is a Lecturer with the Department of Zoology at Government Degree College, Bijbehara, Kashmir (J&K), India, and is actively involved with teaching and research activities. He has more than eight years of research experience. His areas of interest are ecology, soil macrofauna, wildlife biology, conservation biology, etc. Dr. Malik has published over 20 research articles and technical papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has authored and edited books, book chapters, and more than 10 popular editorial articles. He also serves as an editor and reviewer of several journals. He has participated in several state, national, and international conferences, seminars, workshops, and symposia and has more than 20 conference papers to his credit. He is a life member of the Society for Bioinformatics and Biological Sciences.

Satish Kumar, PhD, is Assistant Professor (Food Science and Technology) at the College of Horticulture and Forestry at Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry in Himachal Pradesh, India. He is currently working on the characterization of edible nanoemulsions for reducing postharvest losses of fresh horticultural produce. He is also associated with the development of novel animal food analogues (milk and meat analogues) and protocols for utilization of waste generated from the agricultural and horticultural processing industry by cradle-to-cradle regenerative conceptualization. He has served at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara-Punjab, India, as Assistant Professor (Food Technology and Nutrition). He has to his credit research papers, book chapters, conference papers, and abstracts. He has successfully guided 19 MSc scholars of food technology and nutrition. He has participated in several national and international conferences, seminars, workshops, training, symposiums, etc. He is also serving as editorial board member for several journals as well as a reviewer.

Ritesh Balaso Watharkar, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Processing Technology at Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Karunya, Coimbatore, India. He has worked as Senior Visiting Scholar under a UNESCO Great Wall China Fellowship Programme and as Assistant Professor at K. K. Wagh Food Tech College and at Shramshakti College of Food Technology, affiliated by Mahatma Phule Agricultural University. He has published several journal articles in reputed journals and has attended more than 10 national and international conferences. He also published several popular articles. He is a life member of Association of Food Scientist and Technologist, India.