Faculty Directory

Faculty members in the Department of Grain Science and Industry come from many different backgrounds and focus on a variety of disciplines.

Department Head

Areas of Specialization

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Joseph Awika

 

Plant Derived Secondary Metabolite Chemistry Relevant to Food Quality; Nutrition and Human Health; Bioactive Compound (small molecules) Interactions in Food Matrix; Phenolic Compound Food-polymer Interactions and Consequences on Food Properties; Biological Effects of Plant Derived Bioactive Compounds and International Nutrition and Food Security.
Adjunct Faculty
Emeritus Faculty

Faculty

Area(s) of Specialization
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Sajid Alavi

Professor

Food engineering, specifically Extrusion Processing in Food; Pet Food and Feed Applications; Rheology; Mmicrostructure Imaging; Structure - Texture Relationships; Advances on the Interface of Processing and Nutrition; Process Sustainability and Use of AI and Machine Learning Tools in Processing

Guy Allen
Guy Allen

Senior Agricultural Economist; Grain Marketing and Risk Management Curriculum Manager

Agribusiness - domestic & international; commodity trading and risk management; supply chain logistics and commodity analysis and new business development

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Karen Blakeslee

Extension Associate

Food Science for Extension Agents
Coordinator of the Rapid Response Center and Co-Director of the Kansas Value Added Foods Lab

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Paul Blodgett

Hal Ross Flour Mill; Program/Project Manager

Materials Handling; Technical Milling; Mill Maintenance; Flour Milling; Durum Milling and Plant and Mill Operations

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Carlos Campabadal

Instructor/ IGP Outreach Specialist

Grain Quality; Storage and Processing and Feed Manufacturing Engineering and Spanish Language Technical Support

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Fran Churchill

Professor of Practice; NAMA Instructor

Technical Flour Milling and Plant Operations

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Aaron Clanton

BNEF Instructor

Baking Science; Flour and Ingredient Functionality and Product Development and Bakery Operations

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Hulya Dogan

Ross Endowed Professor

Food Engineering; Grain Processing and Milling; Biopolymer Science; Fundamental and Empirical Rheology; Physical, Mechanical, Thermo-mechanical and Microstructural Characterization; Structure-Texture Relationships; Food Processing; Extrusion and Mathematical Modeling and Process Optimization

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Huseyin Dogan

Professor of Practice

Process Flow Diagram for Grain Operations; Power Distribution and Management on Grain Processing Facilities; Flour and Feed Technology and 2-D and 3-D Plant Design with AutoCAD

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Kelly Getty

Associate Professor/Extension Specialist

Food safety; Food Product Development; Ingredient Functionality and Food Processing

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Elisa Karkle

Assistant Professor

Baking and Cereal Science; Sourdough Fermentation; Ingredient Functionality in Grain-based Foods and End-product Quality Assessment
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Yonghui Li

Associate Professor; Wheat Quality Lab Director

Grain Protein Chemistry & Applications; Bioactive Compounds and Peptides; Bakery Science & Chemistry and Spplied AI and Machine Learning.

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Abbey Nutsch

Teaching Professor/FDSCI; Undergrad Teaching Coordinator

Food Science and Food Microbiology

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Chad Paulk

Associate Professor; Undergraduate Programs Chair and Teaching Coordinator

Feed Processing Technologies; Monogastric Nutrition and Quality Assurance and Feed Safety

Julia Guazzelli Pezzali
Julia Guazzelli Pezzali

Assistant Professor; Pet Food Program Director

Pet Food Processing Technologies; Nutritional Impacts of Processing; Pet Food Quality; Functional Foods; Companion Animal Nutrition and Metabolism and Protein Metabolism

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Deanna Retzlaff

Teaching Professor

Food Microbiology; Online Education and Advising Nontraditional Student Populations

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Kaliramesh Siliveru

University Outstanding Scholar; Associate Professor

Grain processing and Milling; Food Safety; Process Modeling and Simulation; Particle Technology and Mmaterials Handling.

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Yong-Cheng Shi

Professor

Starch Structure and Functionality; Physical, Chemical and Genetic Modifications of Starch; Enzymatic Modifications of Biopolymers; Cereal Starch Digestibility and Carbohydrate Nutrition

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Scott Smith

Professor; Chair, Food Science Graduate Program

Food Chemistry and Toxicology

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Shawn Thiele

IGP Associate Director; Flour Milling and Grain Processing Specialist

Technical Milling and Grain Processing; Specialty Grain Milling and Plant Operations

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Jason Watt

Buhler Instructor of Milling

Technical Milling