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Venue: University of Birmingham - School of Chemical Engineering
Address: S W Campus, Birmingham B15 2TT - directions here
Date: 11 October 2022
Time: 6:00 pm
Guest speaker - Dr Taghi Miri, BSc (Eng), MSc (Eng), PhD
Dr Taghi Miri is a Chemical Engineer with over 20 years of research experience. Dr Miri's has been involved with a number of different industries , including Marlow Food, CSM Bakery, Mondelez, P&G, Smithers Rapra. His research covers a range of topics, including:
Plant-based food processing and safety
Future food: process and safety challenges of food reformulation
Novel Food Processing to enhance the safety and shelf life of food
Circular Economy, Food Waste Valorisation
Bioprocessing for environmental Engineering
Future food: process and safety challenges of food reformulation
Novel Food Processing to enhance the safety and shelf life of food
Circular Economy, Food Waste Valorisation
Bioprocessing for environmental Engineering
Guest Speaker: Dr Helen Onyeaka PhD, MSc, BSc
Dr Helen Onyeaka is an industrial microbiologist with over 25 years of experience. Her career in microbiology to date has been varied with experience gained in industry as well as academia (both teaching and research).
Dr Onyeaka lectures and leads modules on various postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Food Microbiology, Food Safety and Chemical Engineering. She supervises PhD and MSc research projects related to industrial microbiology. She also plans and delivers training for Continuous Professional Development (CPD), including courses for Food Safety Inspection Officers, the food industry and international trainees from the Saudi Food and Drug Authority.
Dr Onyeaka’s PhD researched the impact on individual microbial cells due to a changing microenvironment with regard to their physiology and metabolic pathway and suggested how this knowledge could be used to predict as well as optimize future process performances in the industry. She received the Bridon postgraduate and IChemE Biochemical Engineering award for this doctorate thesis.