Srinivasan
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Biography
Dr. K. Srinivasan, Ph.D. Biotechnology is currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Food Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries India. He holds his Doctoral Degree in Bio-Technology from Tamil University & Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology and Master of Science from Bharathidasan University & Central Food Technological Research Institute.
He has worked and published articles in various projects: “Development of chicken embryo as a diabetic animal model”, “Quality Profile of Indian Rice Varieties”, “Standardization of indigenous ethnic fermented foods”, Development of traditional food items from foxtail and little millet”. He is expertise in Pesticide screening, validation and quantification through GC-MS/MS, Plastic leachates in food products, Phyto-chemical Profiling and Fatty Acid Profile through GC-MS. He awarded as Vice-chancellor’s Postdoctoral fellowship 2018 by the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Gold medal in the National Level Biotechnological Talent Search Examination conducted by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and also qualified in ICAR-NET - Agricultural Biotechnology conducted by Agricultural Scientist Recruitment Board.
Research interests
Food Technological
Bio-Technology
Crop Processing Technology
Analytical Chemistry
