Sustainable Materials for Food Packaging and Preservation

Tabli Ghosh is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology at Tezpur University, India. She obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. During her PhD, she has received DST INSPIRE Fellowship. Dr. Ghosh was a special research student at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, Japan, during her PhD with JASSO Fellowship. Additionally, she has also been the gold medalist during her Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology at Tezpur University, India. Her work mainly focuses on food nanotechnology, functional materials, sustainable materials, biodegradable polymers, bionanocomposites, edible food packaging, and product development.

Swarup Roy is an assistant professor at the Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, India. Dr Roy previously worked at the School of Bioengineering and Food Technology, Shoolini University, India. He was also a postdoctoral researcher at the BioNanocomposite Research Center, Kyung Hee University and Inha University, South Korea, and a research associate at IIT Indore, India. He obtained PhD in biochemistry from University of Kalyani as a DST INSPIRE fellow. His research work is focused on the preparation and application of biopolymer-based functional composite material for active and smart packaging applications.