Rate My Professor Cristina Sabliov

Cristina Sabliov is the Roy Paul Daniels Professor and Richard R. & Betty S. Fenton Alumni Professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Louisiana State University and LSU AgCenter, where she also serves as Director of the Graduate Program. She earned her Ph.D. in Food Science and Biological and Agricultural Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2002, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the same university in 2001, an M.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1998, and a B.S. in Food Technology from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, in 1997. Following a postdoctoral position in Food Science at North Carolina State University from 2002 to 2003, she joined Louisiana State University as an Assistant Professor in Biological and Agricultural Engineering in 2003, advancing to her current professorial roles. Sabliov leads the Bioprocessing and Colloidal Systems laboratory, focusing on nanotechnology for agriculture, food, and medical applications.

Her research interests encompass nanoscale engineering, including nanoencapsulation of bioactive components for controlled drug release and food applications; process development such as microwave heating, supercritical fluid extraction, and microwave extraction of bioactive components from plants; and mathematical modeling of bioprocesses involving multiphysics phenomena. She teaches courses including BE 7331 Nanodelivery Systems and BE 7500 Seminar. Sabliov has received the Tiger Athletic Foundation Award for Outstanding Teacher in the LSU College of Agriculture in 2007, Professor of the Year from the Biological Engineering Student Organization in 2006, Empire Who’s Who of Women in Education in 2006, Who’s Who in Agricultural Higher Education in 2006, and Who’s Who in Engineering Academia in 2005, among other honors including fellowships from the Institute of Food Technologists. Key publications include 'Synthesis and characterization of PLGA nanoparticles' (2006, Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition, 1112 citations), co-editorship of Handbook of Food Engineering (2018), 'Nanodelivery of bioactive components for food applications' (2014, Annual Review of Food Science and Technology), and 'Nanotechnology as a foundational tool to combat global food insecurity' (2023, One Earth). Her scholarship has amassed thousands of citations, influencing fields of biomaterials, food engineering, and nanodelivery systems.