Sher Ali
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
Biography
Dr. Sher Ali, Assistant Professor in the Department of Meat Science and Technology, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences Lahore, Pakistan, holds B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. (Hons.) degrees in Food Science & Technology from the University of Karachi, Pakistan. In 2011, he won a grant to pursue Ph.D. under the overseas Ph.D. program of the Chinese Scholarship Council and completed his Ph.D. with distinction in 2015 from Nanjing Agricultural University, China. In 2015, he joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Meat Science and Technology, UVAS.Dr. Sher Ali is an meat science and technology expert and has several SCI publications in renowned peer-reviewed journals. Furthermore, he has expertise in meat quality, safety and nutrition. Additionally, he has worked on the effect of freeze-thaw cycles on meat quality, the cold supply chain of meat, and preservation technologies of meat, with particular emphasis on the enhancement of eating quality. Moreover, he has hands-on chemical techniques like an assessment of protein and lipid oxidation; high throughput instruments like NMR, HPLC, GC, GCMS, Western Blotting, SDS-PAGE, 2DE Gel Electrophoresis, HPP, Viscoelastic properties and textural profile analyzer; along with microbial safety of fresh and frozen meat. Currently, he has been working on new product development as well as value addition.