Projects
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- Adopting Circular Bio-economy in Thailand Food Supply Chain through Industry-Academia Collaboration (PI)
An interdisciplinary and translational project is aiming to facilitate transformational change in Thai food supply chain from linear to circular using a holistic approach by enhancing safety, quality, and efficiency of the food supply chain and identify how to turn food waste to valuable resources through valorization.
Year: 2021-2022
Agency: Newton Fund through British High Commission (BHC), UK and National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), Thailand - Food Loss Pilot Project at Thai Union Frozen Products Factory (TUF) (PI)
The aim of this project is to conduct preliminary research on valorization of food waste at TUF factory.
Year: 2021
Agency: Thai Union Frozen Products Factory (TUF) - Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture for Enhanced Recovery and Sustainability of Highlands in Thailand (Co-PI)
This project aims to reduce the vulnerability and enhance adaptive capacity of highland communities and ecosystems to cope with current and projected climate change impacts in Nan Province of Thailand.
Year: 2021-2023
Agency: Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Thailand Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Fund (PI)(Industry Support Fund)
This project aims to support Ph.D. Scholars for conducting their following research.
Project Titles:
i) Extraction of Protein Hydrolysates and Peptides from Agro-industrial Waste and Development of Their Nanoparticles in Conjugation with Carbohydrates to Enhance Antimicrobial Properties.
ii) Formulation Optimization and Characterization of Protein-Polysaccharide Conjugate Based Encapsulation System to Enhance Stability, Digestibility and Bioaccessibility of Lutein
Year: 2020-ongoing
Agency: Thailand Graduate Institute of Science and Technology - Social Wellbeing and Mental Health Challenges of Employee of SMEs in Emerging Economies (PI)
Year: 2020-2021
Agency: Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) - Valorization of Tropical Fruit By-Products for the Extraction of High Value Compounds (Industry Support Fund) (PI)
This project aims at development of a sustainable and efficient valorization strategy for the utilization of these by-products to recover high-value compounds using green technologies which aims at zero-waste process and will provide dual benefits of management as well as reduction of environmental pollution.
Year: 2020- 2022
Donor: ASEAN- India Collaborative Fund - FOODI: An Erasmus+ capacity building project on Food Safety and Processing (PI)
FOODI project aims to develop an extensive post-graduate program in Food Processing & Innovation that will remain high in the regional priorities agenda academically but also in terms of policy, for a long time after the project has been completed. The consortium consists of 16 organizations from 3 EU countries and 4 Asian countries. The 10 HEI from partner countries (PCs) comes from 3 different countries in Asia (Malaysia, Cambodia, and Thailand).
Year: 2019-2022
Agency: European Union - Technology Clinic for Agro-Food SMEs in Thailand (Co-PI)
Year: 2019-2021
Agency: United Nations Development Agency (UNDP) through Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) - Bangchak Initiative and Innovation Centre at AIT (BIIC@AIT) (Industrial Project) (Co-PI)
The purpose of Bangchak Initiative and Innovation Centre at AIT (BIIC@AIT) is to stimulate the establishment and growth of green technology-based start-up companies and other compatible businesses.
Year: 2018-2022
Agency: Bangchak Co-operation Limited, Thailand - Sustainable Seafood and Nutrition Security (SSNS) (Co-PI)
Sustainable Seafood and Nutrition Security (SSNS) is a curriculum development project co-funded by EU Erasmus+ Programme to address the issue of sustainability of seafood production, supply and consumption through need-based higher education, and vocational training.
Year: 2018-2021
Agency: European Union (EU) - ASI-FOOD: An Erasmus+ capacity building project on Food Safety (PI)
he Asifood project is a capacity building project in the field of higher education involving collaboration among thirteen partners from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Austria, Belgium, Italy, and France.
Year: 2015 – 2020
Agency: European Union (EU) - Industrial Project for Development of Innovative and Quality Ingredients for Food and Feed and Capacity Building (Industrial Project) (PI)
i) Feed formulations and Nutrigenomics: In vivo study in Poultry
ii) Encapsulation of Probiotics in Feed Pellet Formulations
iii) Enhancing the Water Holding Capacity of Poultry Meat and Design of Infrared Cooking Oven
Year: 2011- 2020
Agency: CPF Company Ltd. Thailand and Others - Food Loss and Waste For High Value (PI)
This project aimed to develop a draft regional strategy on Food Loss and Waste (FLW) and Valorization for High Value and set up a dynamic regional platform for future activities. This project aimed to estimate the postharvest loss, losses, and waste during the industrial processes and at the retailers and proposed some effective strategies, policy and innovative approaches to reduce and manage those waste.
Year: 2018-2020
Agency: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Management of Agribusiness Innovation Centre in Nepal and Capacity Building Program on “Innovative Food Product Development and Innovations in Agri-Business” in Nepal (PI)
During this project, training facilitation was provided to SMEs in Agri-Business in Nepal to nurture start-ups and SMEs and innovators in the agribusiness sector through business incubation from conceptualization, implementation and scaling up.
Year: 2018-2019
Agency: World Bank through - Summer School and Internship Program (PI)
This internship-based project in collaboration with AAU, brought students from India for summer break for exposure in areas relating to food industry visit, laboratory visit, and farm practices in Thailand.
Year: 2019- 2022
Agency: Indian Government through Assam Agricultural University - Support to Aquaculture Capacity Development in Myanmar (Co-PI)
Year: 2020-2022
Agency: GIZ - Save Food in Asia and the Pacific
Year: 2013-2017
Agency: United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - SEA-EU NET 2-EU-ASEAN S&T Cooperation to jointly Tackle Societal Challenges (PI)
SEA-EU-NET 2 project focused on three societal challenges: Health, Food security and safety, and Water management, where the greatest opportunities can be leveraged from joint EU-SEA research.
Year: 2021-2018 - Exploration of Bioactive Value-Added Compounds from Dammar and Seedlac (PI) (Industrial Project)
Year: 2015-2018
Agency: Thevaraya Co.Ltd, Thailand - Development of Anti-Fungal Acrylic Fiber for Novel Application Product and their Safety Evaluation (Industrial Project) (PI)
Year: 2012-2019
Agency: Thai Acrylic Company Ltd - Sustain and Enhance Cooperation on Sustainable Development Research for Local Resource Utilization and Efficiency (SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN) (PI)
The SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN project aimed at establishing a more sustainable and integrated research and innovative cooperation on emerging technologies between EU and South East Asia in the areas of biotechnological methods of raw material utilization and resource efficiency.
Year: June 2013—April 2017
Agency: European Union - G-STIC 2017 (A Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference) (PI)
Year: 2017-2018
Agency: VITO, Belgium - Taking Stock of How Smart Food Production Can Reduce Food Loses and GHG Emission (PI)
The objective of this project was to take stock of existing experiences, constraints, and opportunities for reducing food losses and GHG emissions throughout the agri-food chain.
Year: 2013-2014
Agency: FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) - Health Food Traditions of Asia (PI)
A focus study was conducted to understand linkages between traditional practices and health through this project.
Year: January 2015 – June 2016
Agency: Ministry of Environment, Japan - AIT green campus Initiatives projects for Promoting Participatory Homestead Sustainable Vegetable Production to AIT Community (PI)
Year: February 2014 – January 2015
Agency: ADEME, France - Implementation of the SAVE FOOD ASIA PACIFIC Campaign (Co-PI)
The FAO works together with the Asian Institute of Technology towards the implementation of awareness campaign and strategy development.
Year: 2012-2015
Agency: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Effect of Shrimp Waste Fermented Products on Growth and Disease Protection of Rice and Chili (Industrial Fund) (PI)
Year: April 2012- March 2015
Agency: Govt of Indonesia - Facilitating the Bi Regional EU-ASEAN Science and Technology Dialogue (SEA-EU-NET Partner in Science) (PI)
The project activities included the implementation of join for facilitation and strengthening the bi-lateral dialogue, activities to provide information on the EU FP7 in SEA.
Year: Apr-2011 – Oct-2013
Agency: European Union - Production of Bioethanol and Biomaterials from Oil palm Biomass: A study of Feedstock Sustainability, Technological Efficiency and Social Applicability (Co-PI)
Year: October 2010-May 2013
Agency: Regional Program “SDCC/AIT- France Network” - Mutton Quality of Northern Ethiopian Sheep Breed as Affected by Genotype and the Environment (PI)
Year: 2011-2013
Agency: World Bank
- Adopting Circular Bio-economy in Thailand Food Supply Chain through Industry-Academia Collaboration (PI)
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