Carmen Moraru
Professor and Chair, Food Science
Carmen Moraru is a Professor in the Department of Food Science. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of physical and engineering properties of foods, food/dairy processing and food safety engineering.
Research Focus
- Studying and optimizing food processing methods capable of enhancing product safety, quality and shelf life. Current research areas: use of membrane separation and pulsed light treatment, as physical methods capable of reducing the microbial load of food products in general and dairy products in particular.
- Understand the effect of surface nanoscale topography on microbial attachment and use this understanding to develop microbial repellant surfaces
- Understanding the intermolecular interactions and structural transformations that occur during processing and their effect on the quality and functionality of dairy foods.
Teaching Focus
My teaching focus is Food Processing and Engineering. My main teaching responsibility is the senior undergraduate class Unit Operations and Dairy Foods Processing (FDSC 4250). I am also a co-instructor and course coordinator for FD SC 6650 (Advanced Food and Bioprocessing Systems),and I serve as a guest lecturer for other courses per request.
Areas Of Expertise
- Dairy / Food Processing And Engineering
- Dairy And Food Processing
- Food Engineering
- Food Safety Engineering
- Nanotechnology
- Physical And Rheological Properties Of Foods
- Unit Operations
Graduate Fields
- Food Science and Technology
Contact Information
M10 Stocking Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
cim24 [at] cornell.edu
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A new filtration process that aims to extend milk’s shelf life may result in a pasteurization-resistant microbacterium passing into milk if equipment isn’t properly cleaned early, Cornell scientists say.
- Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program
- Food Science
- Food
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