Dr. Sajid Alavi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Grain Science and Industry,
201 Shellenberger Hall,
Kansas State University,
Manhattan, KS-66506
Ph:785-532-2403,
Fax: 785-532-4017
E-mail: salavi@ksu.edu
Sajid Alavi received his B.S. in "Agricultural Engineering" from "Indian Institute of Technology", India in 1995, M.S. in "Agricultural and Biological Engineering" from Pennsylvania State University, PA in 1997 and Ph.D. in “Food Science/Food Engineering" from "Cornell University", Ithaca, NY in 2001.He joined the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University in 2002.
Dr. Alavi's research interests lie in food engineering and more specifically in the areas of extrusion processing of food and feed materials, rheology, food microstructure imaging and structure - texture relationships.
Dr. Alavi's teaching interests include graduate and undergraduate level courses in Extrusion Processing. These include a senior level course in 'Extrusion processing in food & feed industries in the Fall and a graduate level course 'Advanced extrusion processing' every other Fall.
His current research projects include -"non-invasive imaging of food microstructure"; "phase transition analysis and structure formation in bio-polymeric packaging materials produced by extrusion processing", "starch based bio-degradable packaging foams" and "floating & sinking aquatic feed using extrusion processing".
The Extrusion Lab, which is under his supervision, provides to the industry extrusion training through short courses and services for pilot scale trial runs for various products. The Lab also caters to the needs of research and course related runs.