Graduate Faculty

Lili He, Head of Department, Professor, B.S., Zhejiang University, China, 2004; M.S., 2006; Ph.D., Missouri, 2009.

Hang Xiao, Graduate Program Director, Professor, B.E., Ocean University of China, 1996; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 2004.

Eric A. Decker, Professor, B.S., Pennsylvania State, 1982; M.S., Washington State, 1985; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988.

John Gibbons, Associate Professor, B.S., Keene State, 2005; Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 2012.

Lutz Grossmann, Assistant Professor, B.S. University of Hohenheim, Germany, 2012; M.S., 2015; Ph.D., 2019

Amanda Kinchla, Extension Professor, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998; M.S., Rutgers, 2005.

Charmaine K.W. Koo, Lecturer, B.S., University of British Columbia, Canada, 2011; Ph.D. Massachusetts at Amherst, 2016.

Jiakai Lu, Assistant Professor, B.S., Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, 2008; M.S., Purdue, 2013; Ph.D., 2014.

D. Julian McClements, Distinguished Professor, B.S., Leeds, England, 1985; Ph.D., 1988.

Lynne McLandsborough,  Professor, B.A., University of Miami, Ohio, 1986; M.S., Minnesota, 1989; Ph.D., 1993.

Matthew D. Moore, Assistant Professor, B.S., Cornell, 2010; Ph.D., North Carolina State, 2016.

Alissa Nolden, Assistant Professor, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2011; M.S., Pennsylvania State, 2013; Ph.D., 2016.

Yeonhwa Park, F.J. Francis Endowed Chair, Professor, B.S., Seoul National University, Korea, 1988; M.S., 1990; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1996.

David Sela, Associate Professor, B.S., New York at New Paltz, 2003; M.S., California at Davis, 2006; Ph.D. 2010.

Peiyi Shen, Lecturer, Chief Undergraduate Advisor, B.S., Nanchang University, China, 2009; M.S., 2012; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2018.

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Jeffrey Doherty, Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991; M.S., 1998; Ph.D., 2017.

John Lupien, Adjunct Professor, Department of Food Science. 

Siddhartha Purkayastha, Vice President, Head of Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, Research Fellow, PureCircle/Ingredion, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Indian, 1980; M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1982; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1985; MBA, University of Illinois, Springfield, 1994.

Jeffrey Sanders, Product Manager-Consumer Packaged Goods, Materials Science Division Schrodinger, Inc, B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2007; Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson Medical College, 2013.

Daniell Voller, Principal Scientist, Boston Beer Company, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2010; M.S., 2011; Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2016.

Faculty Emeriti

Ernest Buck, Professor Emeritus, 1990.

Fergus Clydesdale, Professor Emeritus, 2008.

David Evans, Professor Emeritus, 1995.

Ronald G. Labbe, Professor Emeritus, 2018.

Raymond Mahoney, Professor Emeritus, 2013.

Wassef Nawar, Professor Emeritus, 1992.

Micha Peleg, Professor Emeritus, 2015.

Kalidas Shetty, Professor Emeritus, 2013.