Dr. R. Paranthaman, Assistant Chief Technical Officer, Computational Modeling and
Nanoscale Processing Unit (CMNSPU), National Institute of Food Technology,
Entrepreneurship and Management, Thanjavur (NIFTEM-T), Ministry of Food Processing
Industries, Government of India.

He received his Postgraduate degree in Applied Microbiology from University of
Madras, and Doctorate in Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University. He has extensive
experience for more than 21 years in areas of food safety and quality testing. He is well
experienced in implementation and monitoring effectiveness of Quality Management
System(QMS) in the laboratory as per ISO/IEC 17025 of biological and chemical testing of
water, food and agricultural products.

His area of specialization includes Method development, validation, verification
and testing using Hi-tech Analytical Instrumentation such as Powder X-ray diffraction (P-
XRD), Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF), GC-MS/MS, LC-MS/MS,
UHPLC, HPTLC, GC-MS, ICP-OES, ICP-MS, UHPLC-Amino acid analyzer, Preparative
HPLC, Ion Chromatography & Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with EDAX which
includes analysis of heavy metals, pesticide residues, antibiotic residues, amino acid &
vitamin analysis, chemical profiling, mycotoxin, and food adulteration, water and
agricultural products. He received research projects as project leader and project associate
related with Powder X-ray Diffraction of food safety, Probiotics, bioprocessing, enzyme
technology and food safety analysis.
He was awarded the Best “Dr. V. Subramanian IIFPT Best Technical Staff” Of the
Institute in 2021 by NIFTEM-T. He is the recipient of ICDD Grant-in-Aid Program,USA for
his work on pattern development in XRD.

He has served as expert committee member for Hi-tech analytical instrument
procurement and also providing technical guidance to food processing industries. He has
various publications in Peer-reviewed journals of national and international repute. His
articles have more than 1245 citations. He is also the reviewer of Elsevier journals in the
field of food science.