Indrawati Oey
Professor
Food science
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Indra is the Food Science Head of Department. She is also actively involved in the teaching and supervising of our students. Her research focuses on the development of smart processing strategies using conventional and advanced food technologies to create healthier food products with unique sensory characteristics. Understanding mechanisms and kinetics of enzymatic and chemical reactions during processing and shelf life is a pre-requisite to assure the quality of food products. Also understanding consumer perception and acceptance of food products and processing technologies used are essential to achieve sustainable production and marketability of food products. Indra is a Professional member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), United States and a Fellow at the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology. She had been internationally elected as a member-at-large of the Executive Committee Board of Non-thermal Processing Division at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), United States (2012-2015). She was the Chair of Training and Development for European Project funded NovelQ project (2005-2008) and Secretary of the Otago/Southland Branch New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology (2012-2015). She is currently a Principal Investigator of the Riddet Institute CoRE.
Research Interest
Food enzymes Conventional and advanced thermal food processing technologies Non-thermal food processing technologies e.g. high (hydrostatic) pressure, pulsed electric field, cold plasma, pulsed light. Kinetic modeling and process impact assessment Postharvest Innovation Bioavailability and bioactivity of secondary metabolites Consumer perception Technology transfer and dissemination to industrial food applications
Publications
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Liu, Y.-F., Oey, I., Bremer, P., Carne, A., & Silcock, P. (2017). Effects of pH, temperature and pulsed electric fields on the turbidity and protein aggregation of ovomucin-depleted egg white. Food Research International, 91, 161-170. doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2016.12.005
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Leong, S. Y., Burritt, D. J., Hocquel, A., Penberthy, A., & Oey, I. (2017). The relationship between the anthocyanin and vitamin C contents of red-fleshed sweet cherries and the ability of fruit digests to reduce hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress in Caco-2 cells. Food Chemistry, 227, 404-412. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.01.110
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Oey, I., Roohinejad, S., Leong, S. Y., Faridnia, F., Lee, P. Y., & Kethireddy, V. (2017). Pulsed electric field processing: Its technological opportunities and consumer perception. In A. K. Jaiswal (Ed.), Food processing technologies: Impact on product attributes. (pp. 447-516). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
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Poojary, M. M., Roohinejad, S., Barba, F. J., Koubaa, M., Puértolas, E., Jambrak, A. R., … Oey, I. (2017). Application of pulsed electric field treatment for food waste recovery operations. In D. Miklavcic (Ed.), Handbook of electroporation. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
