Advanced Micro-Level Experimental Techniques for Food Drying and Processing Applications (ePub)

Dr Azharul Karim is currently working as an Associate Professor in the school of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He received his PhD degree from Melbourne University in 2007. Dr Karim has authored over 200+ peer-reviewed articles, including 110 high quality journal papers, 13 peer-reviewed book chapters, and four books. His papers have attracted about 5000+ citations with h-index 38. His research has very high impact worldwide as demonstrated by his overall field weighted citation index (FWCI) of 2.10. He is editor/board member of six reputed journals including Drying Technology and Nature Scientific Reports and supervisor of 26 past and current PhD students. He has been keynote/distinguished speaker at scores of international conferences and invited/keynote speaker in seminars in many reputed universities worldwide. He has won multiple international awards for his outstanding contributions in multidisciplinary fields. His research is directed towards solving acute food industry problems by advanced multiscale and multiphase food drying models of cellular water using theoretical/computational and experimental methodologies. He is the recipient numerous national and international competitive grants amounting $3.15 million.

Dr Sabrina Fawzia is currently working as a senior lecturer in civil engineering at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is a structural engineering expert and research focuses on development of the high performance structural members and structural strengthening/ retrofitting by using Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) material technology. Through her scholarly, innovative, high quality research she has established her national and international standing. Dr Fawzia's excellence in research has been demonstrated by high quality refereed publications (98 publications: 1795 citations, h-index=21 Google Scholar), two ARC LIEF grants