Ashok R. Patel PhD

Ashok R. Patel is a Technion Associate Professor at the Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the Institute of Chemical Technology, India in 2008. Following his postdoctoral research in the field of colloidal delivery systems of foods at Unilever R&D in the Netherlands, he relocated to Belgium and joined Ghent University as a Research Director of Vandemoortele Centre for Lipid Science and Technology and Associate Professor in Microstructure-Based Food Product Development. Author of book ‘Alternative Routes to Oil Structuring (Springer, 2015)’ and editor of book ‘Edible Oil Structuring: Concepts, Methods, and Applications (RSC, 2017), he prides himself in being an internationally mobile researcher who has been active in the field of applied colloid science within different sectors, including CRO (Piramal Healthcare Ltd, India), Industry (Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, Netherlands), University (Ghent University, Belgium) and Research institute (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal).