Education:
B.Sc., Home Science, COHSc, PAU, Ludhiana (2001). M.Sc., Food and Nutrition, COHSc, PAU, Ludhiana.(2003), Ph.D., Food and Nutrition, COHSc PAU, Ludhiana (2020)

Positions held :

• Assistant Professor, KVK Faridkot (2009-2013),
• Scientist, PAU, Ludhiana (2013-till date)

Field of Specialization:
Food and Nutrition

Research Interests:
1.Epidemiological and clinical studies

2. Food Product development using unconventional foods

3. Food Analysis

Projects:

• All India Coordinated Research Project on Women in Agriculture(ICAR funded project)- PI
• Breeding high yielding quality wheat using nested population and SNP-Chip(DBT funded project)- Co-PI

Selected Research Publications :

• Arora L, Aggarwal R, Dhaliwal I, Gupta OP and Kaushik P (2023) Assessment of sensory and nutritional attributes of foxtail millet-based food products. Front. Nutr. 10:1146545.doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1146545(NAAS: 12.58)
• Kaur H, Kaur M, Aggarwal R, Sharma S and Singh D(2022) Nanocomposite of MgFe₂O₄ and Mn₃O₄ as Polyphenol Oxidase Mimic for Sensing of Polyphenols. Biosensors. 12, 428. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/bios12060428(Clarivate Impact factor:5.743)
• Aggarwal R, Bains K (2020) Protein, lysine and vitamin D: critical role in muscle and bone health. Critical Rev in Fd Sc Nutr.[Internet]. Dec 8: 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2020.1855101(NAAS rating: 17.18).
• Singh A, Bains K and Aggarwal R (2016) Impact of Nutrition Education to Rural Women for Prevention of Iron Deficiency Anemia through Dietary Approach. Indian Journal of Extension Education. 52: 73-78(NAAS rating: 5.95)
• Tiwari V K, Rawat N, Chhuneja P, Kumari N, Aggarwal R, Randhawa G S, Dhaliwal H S, Keller B and Singh K(2009) Mapping of quantitative trait loci for grain iron & zinc concentration in Diploid A genome wheat. J Heredity. 100(6):771-76. (NAAS 7.7)

Awards/Honours/Distinctions

• PAU Merit Scholarship Holder B.Sc.(Home Science)
• PAU Merit Scholarship Holder for M.Sc (Food and Nutrition)
• Received research fellowship and visited Riddett Institute, Massey University, New Zealand in July-August, 2019 as a visiting scientist
• Best paper award in 6^th Technical session of International Conference on “Food, water and nutrition security for health and wellbeing organized by Shahed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi (Virtual) on 13-14 December, 2021.
• Best Paper Award In the 5^th International Conference on Food and Nutrition(USFN) held at Malaysia on Nov 16-17,2022.
• Third prize in poster presentation in National Symposium on Millets-2022 held at PGIMER, Chandigarh on September 2, 2022