MSFS2020 - The Trainers

 

Ashim Datta

position: Professor

affiliation(s): Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

address: Riley-Robb Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

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website:  http://datta.bee.cornell.edu/

 

Bio:

Ashim Datta has been a professor at Cornell University for the past 29 years. His research and teaching program are in applications of transport phenomena to food and biological processes.

Prof. Datta’s group develops mechanistic understanding of process, quality and safety for complex food processes and under various heating modes (such as microwave and infrared), with a goal to improve their safety and quality. This course is developed from scratch synthesizing from the 20+ years of our research treating the food as a porous medium.

Prof. Datta’s teaching program provides the knowledge base in transport processes through two well-coordinated courses. The first course deals with the basics of energy and mass transport in a biological context. The second course on modeling of biomedical processes builds on the first one through class projects involving real-life processes. Prof. Datta also has several funded projects underway in active learning—1) simulation use in education, and 2) how to teach problem solving.

He is also member of the editorial board of Food and Bioproducts Processing, Official Journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering: part C.

 

 

 

Ferruh Erdogdu

Position: Professor of Food Process Engineering

Affiliation(s): Department of Food Engineering, Ankara University

Address: Gida Müh. Bölümü Diskaps-Ankara 06110 Turkey

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website:  http://www.ferruherdogdu.com

Bio:

Ph.D. in Biological and Agricultural Engineering (focusing Food Process Engineering) – University of Florida, FL-USA, he is a professor at Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Food Engineering, Ankara University (Turkey).

His research focuses on modeling of food processing operations and optimization for innovative applications in food processing.

He authored over 100 scientific papers published in refereed international journals, books and international conferences. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Food Engineering and member of editorial board of Journal of Food Process Engineering.

Member of IFT, ISFE, EAFE (representative of Turkey) and ISEKI Food Association.

He is member of the management committee of COST action 15118 FoodMC.

 

Ed Fontes

Position: Chief Technology Officer

Affiliation(s): COMSOL AB, Sweden

Address: Tegnérgatan 23 SE-111 40 Stockholm Sweden

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website:  https://www.comsol.se

 

Bio:

Chief technology officer at COMSOL. He has been with COMSOL since 2000, and was previously the lead developer for the CFD, heat transfer, and chemical engineering products. He received his PhD in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

 

 

 

Francesco Marra

position: Associate Professor

affiliation(s): Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno

address: via Giovanni Paolo II 132 – 84084 Fisciano - SA - Italy

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link to a website:  http://www.unisa.it/docenti/francescomarra/cv/cv_fm

 

Bio:

PhD in Chemical Engineering, he is assistant professor at School of Chemical and Food Engineering, University of Salerno (Italy).

His research focuses on virtualization of food processes and modeling of transport phenomena in multi-physics context and engineering of innovative prototypes for food processing.

He authored over 70 scientific papers published in refereed international journals, in books and in international conferences. He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Food Engineering and, recently, he served as Guest Editor of a Special Issue of  Journal of Food Engineering on ”Virtualization of processes in food engineering”.

Already member of IFT and of EHEDG, recently he joined ISFE and ISEKI Food Association.

Manager of Training Schools and Short Term Scientific Mission of COST action 15118 FoodMC.