Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Overview
Cresha Gracy Nadar has newly joined the Centre for Crop Science at QAAFI as a Postdoctoral Research fellow. Cresha has an engineering background in the field of Biotechnology and has pursued a Ph.D. in the field of Bioprocessing from IIT Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia. Her Ph.D. research was about developing a novel biorefinery process from fruit processing waste and performing sustainability assessment using life cycle analysis. At QAAFI, Cresha is further exploring the environmental footprint assessment in the fields of food processing, biotechnology and other agriculture domains.
Research Interests
- Sustainability Assessment
- Bioprocessing
- Food processing
- Biotechnology
Qualifications
- Masters (Extended)
Publications
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Journal Article: Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste
Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Arora, Amit and Shastri, Yogendra (2022). Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste. ACS Engineering Au, 2 (2), 61-74. doi: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.1c00025
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Journal Article: Green and clean process to obtain low degree of polymerisation xylooligosaccharides from almond shell
Singh, Ramkrishna D., Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Muir, Jane and Arora, Amit (2019). Green and clean process to obtain low degree of polymerisation xylooligosaccharides from almond shell. Journal of Cleaner Production, 241 118237. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118237
Publications
Journal Article
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Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste
Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Arora, Amit and Shastri, Yogendra (2022). Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste. ACS Engineering Au, 2 (2), 61-74. doi: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.1c00025
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Singh, Ramkrishna D., Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Muir, Jane and Arora, Amit (2019). Green and clean process to obtain low degree of polymerisation xylooligosaccharides from almond shell. Journal of Cleaner Production, 241 118237. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118237
