Sajad Ahmad Wani Editor

Dr. Sajad Ahmad Wani is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science & Technology, Govt. Degree College, Shopian, J&K, India. He has completed his Masters Degree in Food Technology from IUST, Awantipora, J&K, India and PhD from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Punjab, India. Qualified National Eligibility Test (2015) (NET) conducted by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in Dec 2015. He has published more than 35 research/review articles, 10 book chapters and 1 book. He is also writing articles for the popular magazines Food & Beverage News (India’s First Magazine for Food & Beverage Industry). He has attended 50 National and 20 International conferences, seminars and workshops throughout the world. Dr. Wani has participated in various faculty development programmes. Dr. Wani serves as Editorial Board Member of number of national and International Journals. He is Potential Peer Reviewer of reputed International Journals related to Food Science and Technology that belong to popular publishing house viz. Elsevier, Taylor-Francis, Wiley, Springer etc. He is also working as member of various associations like IFT, IFERP, International Association for Agricultural Sustainability, AFSTI, Asia Society of Researchers and Asian Council of Science Editors. Dr. Wani is the recipient of "Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF-2013-14) from University Grant Commission, New Delhi, India.

Dr. Ajay Singh is presently working in the department of Food Technology of Mata Gujri College, An autonomous body (Estd; 1957) of Punjab, India. Obtained Bachelor’s of Science in Life sciences from Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, India. Master’s in Food Science & Technology from CDLU, Sirsa, India and Doctorate in Food Engg & Tech from SLIET, Longowal. Qualified ICAR NET-2014. Also experienced in High Pressure Processing (HPP) impact on physic-chemical characterization on buffalo milk from NDRI and IIT kharagpur collaborated project. Most suitably here to mention; qualified with Rheology diploma-Rotation and Oscillations from Anton Paar (Austria), working experience in the same field on to the MCR-52 (Anton-Paar) model is also worth to mention here. Attended and participated various conferences and workshops of national and international repute. DST sponsored speaker for an oral talk at an international conference of Chicago, USA. So many review, research and popular articles of national and international journal have been assigned to my credit alongwith lists of online MOOCS course (IIT Kanpur & COL, Canada) awarded with distinction. Demonstrated TEQIP sponsored workshop as resource person in Kurukshetra university, Kurukshetra. I am also awarded with 2nd prize in MOFPI sponsored international conference at JNU, N. Delhi. Recently, submitted a bilateral project (Indo-Uzbekistan) on formula optimization as smoothie for severely acute malnourished (SAM) children to DST, Govt of India.

Professor Pradyuman Kumar is working as a professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology of Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Sangrur, Punjab, India. Dr. Kumar has a teaching experience of more than 20 year and about 15 years of research experience. He has published more than 100 research/review articles, number of book chapters and books. He is also writing articles for the popular magazines Food & Beverage News (India’s First Magazine for Food & Beverage Industry). He has attended more than 100 National and International conferences, seminars and workshops throughout the world. Dr. Kumar serves as Editorial Board Member of number of national and International Journals. He is Potential Peer Reviewer of reputed International Journals related to Food Science and Technology that belong to popular publishing house viz. Elsevier, Taylor-Francis, Wiley, Springer etc. He is also working as member of various associations like IFT, AFSTI, Asia Society of Researchers and Asian Council of Science Editors.