Education:B. Tech., ICAR-NDRI, Karnal (2012); M. Tech., NIFTEM, Sonepat (2014); Ph.D., SRS, ICAR-NDRI, Bangalore (2018)

Positions held:Assistant Professor (Food Technology), Jain Deemed to be University (Aug 2018-Aug 2019)

Field of Specialization:Processing and Food Engineering

Research Interests:

1. Minimal and Non-thermal Food Processing Technology
2. Design and Development of equipments related to post harvest technologies of crops

Research Projects:

• Application of pulsed electric field in raw milk and its effect on quality of select indigenous dairy products
• Osmotic dehydration of plums with impregnation of calcium and ascorbic acid.
• Application of pulsed electric field in aleo vera juice
• Development of vegetable based edible flim
• Development of herbal kefir
• Development of coconut water-based popsicle
• Development of millet-based beer and utilization of spent yeast

Selected Research Publications (Maximun upto 5):

1. 1. Goyal M. R. Birwal, P. and Sharma, M. (2020). Handbook of Research on Food Processing and Preservation Technologies- A set of five volumes, AAP-CRC a-Talyor and Francis Group, Florida 32905 USA
   2. Birwal P, Singham P, Shankar S P, Bobade S S, Manjuantha M and Pal B K (2016). Osmo-Vacuum Dehydration of Minimally Processed Plums. Environment and Ecology, 34 (4D): 2602-2606, ISSN:0970-0420, (NAAS= 4.18).
   3. Birwal P, Singham P, Shankar S P, Bobade S S, Manjuantha M, Pal B K and Manjuantha M (2016). Storage Quality of Vacuum Dried Plum Slices. Environment and Ecology, 34 (4D): 2607-2610, ISSN:0970-0420, (NAAS= 4.18).
   4. Gajanan D, Bhadania A G, Birwal P, Datir R and Patel S (2018). Moisture Sorption Charatersitics of kalakand- A Traditional Indian Dairy Product, Indian Journal of Dairy Science. 1(71), 705-711, ISSN:0019-5146, (NAAS= 5.27).
   5. Gulzar S, Birwal P, Nema P K and Singham P (2017). Design & Construction of VFBD & Drying Kinetics of Muskmelon Seeds, International Journal of Pure and Applied Science. 5 (4): 204-211, ISSN:2320-7051, (NAAS= 4.74).
   6. Devendra, Shankar S P, Birwal P, Basu S, Deshmukh G, and Datir R (2018). Brahmi(Bacopa monnieri)as Functional Food Ingredient in Food Processing Industry. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 7(3), 189-194. ISSN:2349-8234 (NAAS: 5.21)

Awards/Honours/Distinctions:

Recipient of university Bronze medal under UG programme and merit certificate in Ph.D.