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Sudhir Sastry

Sudhir K. Sastry is a food engineer, academic, and author. He is a professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Ohio State University (OSU).

Sastry's research started with sterilization and expanded to superior bacterial inactivation methods, including ohmic heating, moderate electric field (MEF) processing; high pressure processing (HPP), and pulsed electric fields (PEF). He has contributed to the development of thermal and nonthermal food manufacturing technologies, and established his lab at Ohio State. In 2001, he set up a 54 kW pilot facility at Ohio State, leading to industrial adoption of ohmic heating; and founded the nonprofit Society of Food Engineering to address the needs of food engineers, which has organized the Conference of Food Engineering since 2018.

Sastry has received awards including the IFT Research and Development Award, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) Senior Faculty Research Award, International Association of Engineering and Food (IAEF) Lifetime Achievement Award, International Food Engineering Award, and has also been named as Distinguished Professor of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at OSU in 2022–23. Provided by Wikipedia