Shahram Emami PhD

Dr. Shahram Emami is experienced in the fields of food science and food engineering with a substantial background in starch separation from pulse and cereal grains, purification and isolation of natural products from various plant materials, protein and oil extraction from crops, grain quality and processing, and also, value-added process engineering of biological materials. He obtained Ph.D. in 2007 from the Department of Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering (now the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering) at the University of Saskatchewan. He studied the separation of starch and protein from chickpea flour and also on the functionality of the isolated starch and protein. He obtained valuable experience as a postdoctoral fellow for 3.5 years and since 2011 he has been working as manager of the BPP at the University of Saskatchewan.