Sushil DhitalDr. Sushil Dhital is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering and co-director of the Monash Food Innovation Centre at the Monash University, Australia. He completed his PhD at The University of Queensland in 2011 folowed by a research fellow position at UQ, examining the starch-plant cell walls interactions. Sushil joined Monash University (Department of Chemical Engineering) in July 2019. Dr. Dhital caries fundamental and applied research on elucidating the structure-property-function-health relationships of food and food ingredients. His stronghold and research interest are on relating the plant molecular structures to macroscopic properties with relevance to food, health, and product development. He uses cross-disciplinary approaches drawing from physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering and uses various in-vitro and in-vivo models to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms beyond the nutritional and processing functionality of food and food ingredients. Read More Read Less