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School of Industrial Technology

Professor Dato' Dr. Azhar Mat Easa

Expertise: 

  1. Engineering Properties of Food and Biological Materials
  2. Functional Food
  3. Nutritional Product Development
  4. Education and Extension in Food Sciences and Nutrition
  5. Management Issues in Food Sciences and Nutrition

Dr. Azhar's current job functions include lecturing, supervising students in research, conducting research (mainly in the design & development of functional food and protein function enhancement), consulting in functional food and protein functionalities, refereeing and publishing scientific papers, evaluating grant proposals, examining theses, and writing scientific reports/articles. His achievements in research have been featured in various publications and the media. Initially, his research interest has been on protein functionality (enhancement of protein functions by the use of sugar-protein interactions and cross-linking agents) and then on the design &development of functional foods or 'almost-illegal products"/ingredients (adding value to foods by converting them to functional or health-enhancing products). With the university's emphasis on sustainability, he has redirected his research theme towards "Sustainability-Led-Innovative-Manufacturing", or SLIM. This has led to the commercialisation of the research product called "Slimmee".

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