Assistant Lecturer

Email: azzasilotry.naik@TUDublin.ie

Tel: (01) 220 8535

Background

Dr Azza Silotry Naik received M. Tech in Bioprocess technology (2009) from UICT (now ICT), Mumbai, India with DBT fellowship and Ph.D. in Food Biotechnology (2015) from ICT with UGC-SAP fellowship.

She was appointed as an Assistant Professor and Section Head for Food Science at the D.Y.Patil deemed to be University, Navi Mumbai, India from 2015-2018 during which she supervised over dozen postgraduate students for their research projects. From 2019-2021 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Teagasc, Dublin, Ireland on two different projects MUSSELS (EMFF funded) and MEESO (EU H-2020) and then at University of Limerick (2021-2022) on SarcoBlu (DAFM funded) project.

Before Joining TUDublin as an Assistant Lecturer in Food Science & Sustainability in August 2022, she worked as a Senior scientist at Nuritas in Manufacturing R&D where she was involved in process optimization of plant protein hydrolysates manufacturing process.

She has been a recipient of several travel grants from national organizations in India (DST, DBT, CICS, ICMR) and has won the graduate technical writing award at IFT-2014 in New Orleans, USA. She is also a co-leader of working group WG-3 in the COST action Ocean4Biotech CA18238 and has won several events such as the Hackathon-2021, Communication skills for scaling up process-2022, Cyprus and participated in a short-term scientific mission in 2022 (STSM) at Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen during her association with this action.

 

Research Interests

Her research interest has mainly been isolation and purification of bioactive molecules & development of functional ingredients from plant & marine biomass with special focus on valorisation of by-products. She has previously worked on bioprocessing of juice industry waste and marine by-products to yield high value functional products. Novel food processing techniques for optimized extraction of bioactive molecules such functional lipids, proteins and peptides has been her pursuit.

At present she works on hydrolysing proteins using enzymes to manufacturing bioactive peptides rich hydrolysates for targeting metabolic disorders.

Recent Publications

A.S. Naik, R.D. Whitaker, S. Albrektsen, R.G. Solstad, L. Thoresen, M. Hayes (2021) Mesopelagic fish protein hydrolysates and extracts: A source of novel anti-hypertensive and anti-diabetic peptides. Frontiers in Marine Science, 1169.

A.S. Naik, D. Suryawanshi, M. Kumar, R. Waghmare (2021) Ultrasonic treatment: A cohort review on bioactive compounds, allergens and physico-chemical properties of food. Current Research in Food Science 4, 470-477.

A.S. Naik, L. Mora, M. Hayes (2020) Characterisation of Seasonal Mytilus edulis By-Products and Generation of Bioactive Hydrolysates. Applied Sciences 10 (19), 6892.

A.S. Naik, M. Hayes (2019) Bioprocessing of mussel by-products for value added ingredients. Trends in food science and technology 92, 111-121.

Book chapters

A.S. Naik, M. Jamakhani, M.R. Vernekar, S.S. Lele (2021) Animal-and Plant-Based Food for Health and Longevity Nutrition. Food and Diet in Ageing and Longevity, 155-177.

A.S. Naik, R. Waghmare (2020) Application of Glycosyl Hydrolases in Food Industry. Industrial Applications of Glycoside Hydrolases, 217-228.