Title

Jiajia Rao

Position

Associate Professor - Cereal & Food Science

Extension Leadership Team

Part time

jiajia.rao@ndsu.edu

Web URL

https://www.safiilabs.com/

Platforms

Offices

Plant Sciences

Mailing address:

NDSU Dept 7670, PO Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050

Physical address:

Peltier 3108G, NDSU
Fargo, ND 58102

701-361-4715

Education

Associations

Professional Interests

The primary mission of Dr. Rao's research is to foster long-term economic benefits for North Dakota and United States through value-added agricultural products. In pursuing this mission, Dr. Rao launched a food biopolymer and ingredient lab and formed a research team to utilize foods and their by-product streams. These include products and by-products from cereal, legumes and oil crops. Two primary research foci currently exist in Dr. Rao’s research program at NDSU.
(1)Improving plant protein functionality.
(2)Development of delivery systems for encapsulation of bioactive ingredients

Personal Information

Previous Employment

1. 2016.03-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.

2. 2013.08-2016.02 Senior Scientist, Global Beverage Research and Product Development Center, PepsiCo Inc, Valhalla, NY.

3. 2013.05-2013.07 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

4. 2005.07-2009.02 Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, China

Jiajia Rao

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