Work Experience

Assistant Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (September 2014 to April 29, 2021); Principal Scientist, Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai (1999- August 2014); Professor, Doublin Institute of Technology, Ireland (January 2013); Scientist, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore (1994 – 1999); Research Scholar, Kakatiya University, Warangal (1985 – 1992); Visiting Scholar, University of Massachesetts, Amherst (2009)

Areas of Interest:

• Quality assurance in higher agricultural education through policy support, accreditation, academic regulation, review of course curricula and improvement of faculty competence.
• Fish and fish oil based Nutraceuticals & value added products
• Functional foods enriched with cardio-protective omega-3 fatty acids
• Oxidative stability and delivery of omega-3 fatty acids using nanotechnology
• Fish Gelatin and its utility
• IPR issues & commercialization of technologies
• Associated with the European M.Sc program in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition under Erasmus Mundus program
• Development of nano-scale omega-3 fatty acid delivery systems
• Chemical and Olfactometric characterization of volatile flavour compounds of fish oil enriched milk emulsion
• Modeling the sensory impact of volatile lipid oxidation products on fishy off-flavours
• Flavour constituents edible mushrooms
• Improvement of Solasodine yield from Solanum viarum berries
• Profiles of essential oils of citrus fruits
• Aroma constituents of Jasmine
• Cycloadditions in Heterocyclic Synthesis and Photochemistry of isoxazoles