Dr Peter Sopade    Senior Research Fellow

	Biography

Food properties, extrusion, and processing-quality interface, with special interest in starch.

He received his PhD from the University of Reading, UK, in 1987. His current research projects are in the fields of:

• Extrusion Studies
• Model starch studies
• Mechanisms of starch gelatinisation
• Glass transition and its relation to properties of materials
• Applications of temperature-modulated DSC (MDSC) for thermal analysis
• Collaborative Research on Sago Starch in Papua New Guinea

	Keywords
	Agricultural: Food Engineering, Agricultural: Food Processing, Agricultural: Food Technology, Agricultural: Food Sciences, Agricultural: Food Storage, Agricultural: Food Preservation, Agricultural: Cereals, Agricultural: Agriculture/Food Studies--Developing Countries, Agricultural: Agricultural Engineering, Engineering: Chemical Engineering