Education: B.Tech., PAU, Ludhiana (2013); M.Tech., PAU, Ludhiana (2015); Ph.D., PAU, Ludhiana (2019)

Positions held: Research Associate, PAU, Ludhiana (Nov,2019 to Feb,2020); Assistant Professor, BGFI, Bathinda (April,2020 to October,2020), Scientist, PAU, Ludhiana (Oct,2020 – till date).

Field of Specialization: Processing and Food Engineering

Research Interests:

1. Post harvest handling and processing of horticultural crops.
2. Design and development of machinery related to food processing units.

Research Projects:

1. Osmotic dehydration of aonla using honey.
2. Development and evaluation of small scale garlic peeler.
3. Development and evaluation of magnetic field assisted freezing of selected horticultural produce.
4. Magnetic field assisted freezing process for horticultural produce- Patent Filed.
5. Indo- UK project “Biobased packaging for fresh food (BioFreshPak)” funded by DBT and Innovate UK.
6. Development of sensor platform for rapid detection of adulteration in turmeric powder under Mission of Tandrust Punjab:Safe Food.

Selected Research Publications (maximum up to 5):

1. Maninder Kaur and Mahesh Kumar (2020) An Innovation in Magnetic Field Assisted Freezing of Perishable Fruits and Vegetables: A review. Food Reviews Int. 36 (8):761-780. DOI:10.1080/87559129.2019.1683746 (NAAS :12.48)
2. Maninder Kaur, Mahesh Kumar and VP Sethi (2022) Maintaining the freeze thawing characteristics of tomato through development and evaluation of magnetic field assisted freezing system. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation. (NAAS- 8.19).
3. Maninder Kaur, Preetinder Kaur and Mahesh Kumar (2019) Development and Fabrication of Small Capacity Garlic Peeler. Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci 8(8): 619-634 (NAAS :5.38)
4. Maninder Kaur and AK Singh (2019) Effect of process parameters on quality of honey osmosed dehydrated Aonla. International Journal of Chemical Studies. 7(4): 3151-3157(NAAS:5.31)
5. Maninder Kaur and Preetinder Kaur (2019) Economic feasibility of small scale garlic peeler. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 8(4): 3264-68. (NAAS:5.21)
6. Maninder Kaur, Preetinder Kaur and Amrit Kaur (2018) Effect of pre – peeling treatment, packaging and storage temperature on bioactive compounds and post harvest life of minimally processed garlic cloves. International Journal of Microbiology Research 10 (6):1232-39. (NAAS:4.77)
7. Maninder Kaur, Preetinder Kaur and Amarjit Kaur (2017) Engineering properties of peeled and unpeeled garlic cloves. Agric Res J 54 (1): 85-89. (NAAS: 4.71)
8. Maninder Kaur, Preetinder Kaur and Gagandeep Kaur (2016) Post Harvest Management of Garlic. International Journal for Science and Advance Research in Technology.2(2)184-91.(Impact factor:5.388)

Patents applied:

1. Mahesh Kumar, Maninder Kaur, V.P. Sethi and Derminder Singh (2019).“MAGNETIC FIELD ASSISTED FREEZING PROCESS FOR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE”.CIP LEGIT Intellectual Property Counsels. (Patent Application Number-201911040489).

Awards/Honours/Distinctions:

• University Merit Scholarship during Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Programs
• University Senior Fellowship during Ph.D. Programme for highest OCPA
• Awarded University Gold Medal for Ph.D