Seligman Fellowship winners are announced
APV Fellowships: Brazilian and Ivorian winners
The 2008 SCI Seligman
APV Fellowships in Food
Engineering have been awarded to
Nara Cardoso Barato from Brazil
and Pierre Akely from the Ivory
Coast, West Africa.
The Seligman Fellowship gives
post-graduate students from overseas
the opportunity to study in
one or more of the UK’s renowned
centres of food engineering for up
to six months, with a grant of up
to £9,000 each.
Nara Cardoso Barato, who has
just arrived in the UK from Brazil,
is studying for a masters degree
in food technology at the State
University of Campinas, where
she also took her degree in food
engineering.
After graduation, she decided
to continue with her studies in
food engineering in a more specific
field: membrane separation
processes, and has spent a large
part of her masters degree working
on cashew apple juice clarification
using membranes.
Cashew apple is a tropical fruit,
originally from north-east Brazil.
She says the product caught her
attention when she became aware
that 90% of the total national
cashew production is wasted
every year due to lack of proper
preservation methods.
Pierre Akely, who will be coming
to the UK in July 2008, is a PhD
thesis student studying food technology
at the Department of Food
Sciences and Technologies,
University of Abobo-Adjamé, Ivory
Coast, where he also graduated
with a BSc degree and a masters
in food microbiology – with distinction
in each case.
His previous work experience
includes working on the ‘Potential
of cassava (Manihot esculenta
Crantz) processing in West Africa’
and a PhD project presentation
on the ‘Effect of squeezing forces
on the physiochemical and sensory
qualities of mashed fermented
cassava (Attiéké)’.
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