John D. Floros PhD, MS

Dr. John Floros is a Professor of Food Science at the New Mexico State University. He previously served as dean of the College of Agriculture and director of K-State Research and Extension. There, he led the development of a College of Agriculture strategic plan for Vision 2025 and guided the college to record student enrollments, retention and graduation, and nearly 100 percent placement. As a director, he steered K-State Research and Extension – an entity with faculty and staff in five colleges: Agriculture, Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Human Ecology, and Veterinary Medicine – to record extramural funding, with research expenditures of more than $105 million. Under his leadership the College of Agriculture established the first ever NSF-supported Center on Wheat Genomics; and four new Feed-the-Future Labs from USAID on wheat, sorghum, and millet, postharvest loss reduction, and sustainable intensification, for a total investment of more than $100 million in five years. Floros’ research work spans the application of chemical engineering science, applied mathematics, and industrial statistics to the field of food science, food process engineering, and food packaging. Floros served as professor and head of the department of food science at Pennsylvania State University from 2000-2012.