Biography:
She currently serves as a Professor at the Laboratory of Food Science & Technology, Food & Nutrition division, Home Science Dept. University of Calcutta and Associate faculty of Centre for research in nanoscience and nanotechnology (CRNN). Her research team is primarily engaged in exploring functional food and nano lipid technology. Having an h-indexof 16, i10 index 27, and >50 publications with citations and post-graduate teaching experience over 20 years, she has demonstrated her research and teaching acumen quite conspicuously and consistently. She has supervised 12 Ph.D thesis and over 8 students are presently working. She has been awarded with the Dr. S. Hussain Zaheer Memorial award, 2007 for best research contribution in lipid technology instituted by Zaheer Science Foundation, New Delhi, an integral member of Oil Technology Association of India, P.B. Sen memorial award, 1999 by the Physiological Society of India, New Delhi. She has been awarded Dr. S D Thirumala Rao Memorial Award 2015 in the70th Annual Convention of OTAI and most prestigious Mrs. Sakuntala Dasgupta memorial award for research in the field of nutrition by Physiological Society of India (PSI) in 2016. She is the Assistant Head of the OIL LABORATORY, Department of Chemical technology.
Title : Prebiotic activity of enzymatically extracted soluble dietary fibres from oil seed meals