Prabhat K. Nema is a Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Dean, Research at NIFTEM, India. He obtained B. Tech. in Agricultural Engineering from JNKVV, Jabalpur (1995) and M. Tech. in Dairy & Food Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur in India (1997). He has experience of working in Food Industry for about four years. He completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur in Dairy and Food Engg (2008). He has more than twenty years of experience at various universities including NERIST (Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh), JNKVV (Jabalpur, MP), RVSKVV (Gwalior, MP), AAU (Anand, Gujarat) and serving NIFTEM (Kundli, Haryana) since 2011.
He was National Vice President of AFSTI in 2019. He has published scientific research articles in the journals of national and international repute. He is Editor of Journal of Food Science and Technology (Springer). He has been instrumental in developing labs, conducting funded research projects, guiding research projects for number of food professionals at UG, PG and PhD level.
He offers consultancy services in the area of food processing. He is also recipient of Seligman APV Award by Society of Chemical Industry, London (UK) which enabled him to have research experience in the University of Reading (UK) in 2007. As a member of NIFTEM delegation, he has visited various academic and research institutions in Germany and the Netherland in 2013. He was awarded Travel Grant by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to deliver Keynote Speech and Chair Technical Session in Asia Pacific Drying Conference in Wuxi, China in 2017.
He has organized First International Conference (2013), First and Second Drying Workshop (2014 & 2015) and various training programmes at NIFTEM.
