Associate Professor Jayashree Arcot

Jayashree Arcot is an Associate Professor in the Food and Health Cluster of the School of Chemical Engineering. She is the Undergraduate Food Science Program Co-ordinator and Advisor.

Her expertise spreads across Food Science and Nutrition with a focus on micronutrients and bioactives in foods, their sources and bioavailability in humans using stable isotopic techniques and developing new in vitro tools such as 2D and 3D cell culture techniques for understanding the bioavailability of nutrients. She was the Director of the ARC Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture (2013-2018) (ww.atfm.unsw.edu.au). She initiated several industry funded projects- nutrient recovery from food manufacturing stream wastes; utilisation of agricultural wastes for producing biodegradable packaging material using nanotechnology ((https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/packaging-made-banana-plants-peeling-alternative). She served on the AOAC (US) Stakeholder Panel for Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals (SPIFAN) as an expert on folate, Vitamin D and Vitamin C analytical methodology. She was a member on the Folate Technical Advisory Group of the Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) in 2009. She was the Vice-cordinator of OCEANFOODS (INFOODS, FAO) from 2009-2019. She is a member of the International Humanitarian Food Science and Technology (HFST) Network. She is on the Editorial Board of Food Frontier; and an Associate Editor and Review Editor for the journal Frontiers in Nutrition.