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Ovissipour, Reza

Reza Ovissipour

Assistant Professor
Office:  
CMAT 100
Email:  
Phone:  
979-314-3946

Education

Undergraduate Education
B.Sc Natural Resources Engineering-Aquaculture Engineering; Gorgan Agri. Sciences and Natural Resources University , Gorgan, Iran. 2004
Graduate Education
M.Sc. Natural Resources Engineering-Seafood Science and Technology, Tarbiat Modares University , Iran 2006
Ph.D Natural Resources Engineering-Bioprocess Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran 2010
Ph.D Biosystems Engineering-Food Engineering, Washington State University , Pullman, Washington 2017
Awards
Startup Builder Award, Virginia Tech IP and Commercialization Office, 2023
International Travel Award; Virginia Tech CALS Global Program, 2019
Food, Ag+Health Entrepreneurship Academy Scholarship, UC Davis, 2017
Arnie & Marta Kegel Endowed Fellowship, Washington State University, 2017

Areas of Expertise

  • Cellular agriculture
  • precision fermentation
  • food safety
  • microbiome
  • bioprocess engineering
  • AI-assisted food processing.

Professional Summary

  • Enhance Sustainability, Resiliency and Robustness in Agri-Food Systems;
  • Cellular agriculture and precision fermentation;
  • AI-assisted food production, and improving Life Cycle Analysis;
  • Insects-based food and feed production;
  • Agri-food waste valorization;
  • Bioprocess technology and fermentation to enhance the post-biotics quality;
  • Nanobubbles and microbial community for enhancing food production;
  • Biomaterials and bioplastics;
  • Aquaponics and hydroponics;

Support Staff and Students:

Arian Amirvaresi, PhD student

Champ Jones, PhD student

Ikenna Okehie, PhD student

Morgan Rease, PhD student

Miya Downing, MAG student

Michaela Walker, Research Specialist III

Wasitha Thilakarathna, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Arash Shahsavari, Postdoctoral Research Associate

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