Dr. Kiruba Krishnaswamy is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Food Systems Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and the Division of Food, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences. Her research program Food Engineering and Sustainable Technologies (FEAST: www.feastlab.org) integrates convergence sciences with engineering principles to address the interconnected challenges of food and nutrition security. She uses a circular food systems approach to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  

Krishnaswamy obtained her B.Tech. in Food Process Engineering from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. She obtained the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship for her graduate research and continued her Ph.D. in Bioresource Engineering from McGill University, Canada. During her Postdoc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto, she worked on three large-scale food fortification projects with micronutrients.  

She has experience working on food and nutrition security projects in India, Kenya, Canada, and the US. Krishnaswamy is a member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  

Key words: Innovative food technologies; Food sustainability