Applied Rheology in Food Processing

Winny Routray is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Process Engineering at NIT Rourkela, India, where she is involved in several national and international collaborative projects. She has also served as Associated Graduate Faculty at the University of Guelph, Canada, since 2021. Dr. Routray earned her PhD in Bioresource Engineering from McGill University, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Valerie Orsat, where she was a Graduate Excellence Fellow and a teaching assistant for the Bioresource Engineering Material program. Her primary research interests lie in food and post-harvest engineering, by-product utilization and waste valorization through bioprocessing, downstream processing, and microbial applications. Her work generally explores frontiers in bioengineering, including biofuels, sustainable biomaterials production, and the development of value-added products from agricultural and industrial waste and by-products. She has authored numerous scientific articles in international journals and contributed book chapters to various food engineering-focused publications. Dr. Routray is affiliated with several international and national scientific societies.

Kshirod Kumar Dash is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Processing Technology at Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology (GKCIET), Malda, West Bengal, India. He received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and completed his Post-Doc at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Dash has supervised numerous postgraduate and doctoral students and has published over 50 works in peer-reviewed international journals, along with contributions to edited volumes as book chapters. His research interests include Food Process Engineering, Unit Operations in Food Processing, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat and Mass Transfer in food processing.