Ruchir Priyadarshi

Dr. Ruchir Priyadarshi is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Humanities Convergence Research center, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. Before joining this position, he served as a Brain Pool Fellow (2019-2024) at the Departmnt of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. (2018) from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in Biodegradable Food Packaging. He served as Head of Biopolymer Innovations at Yash Papers Ltd. India (2018-2019), where he worked on the development of bagasse-based molded tableware products. His research interests include active food packaging, functional materials, sustainable materials, biodegradable polymers, and bionanocomposites. Dr. Priyadarshi is a reputed reviewer for several peer-reviewed international journals in the Food Technology and Materials Science research areas. Recently, he has been awarded as a Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% globally) in Agricultural Sciences by Clarivate Analytics for the year 2024.