Nanotechnology in Edible Food Packaging

Dr. Vimal Katiyar is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT), India. He is also an Honorary Senior Fellow to Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, Visiting Professor at GIFU University, Japan and has also been honored as Chair Professor at Numaligarh Refinery Limited & Hindustan Gums Co. Limited. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, India. Currently, he is the coordinator for three Centre of Excellence at IIT Guwahati including Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Polymers funded by Department of Chemicals and petrochemicals, Government of India and the Joint Centre of Excellence for Biofuels and Biocommodities funded by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and NRL-Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Materials at IIT Guwahati through industry intervention.His main area of research includes sustainable polymer development, its processing, and their structure property relationship, rheological aspects, migration studies, toxicological effects, polymer degradation, polymer based nanomaterials, food packaging, clean and green energy technologies. He is a co-inventor of 22 granted/filed patents. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed research articles in highly reputed journals and more than 250 conference papers and 40 book chapters.