Rate My Professor Pramesh Dhungana

Dr. Pramesh Dhungana serves as a Lecturer in the School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University, where he joined in 2023. With over 20 years of experience in food science across industry and academia, Dhungana earned his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane in 2019, focusing on the relationship between fat globule size and the functionality and stability of dairy emulsions. Following his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UQ, investigating gaseous nanobubble generation and its applications in dairy processing, and later as a Senior Technical Officer for one year. Earlier roles include a researcher position at UQ's School of Agriculture and Food Sciences from 2014 to 2015. His academic qualifications also encompass an M.Tech in Food Engineering and Technology from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (SLIET) in India and a B.Tech in Food Technology from Tribhuvan University in Nepal. Dhungana's research specializes in food process engineering, with emphasis on process and equipment design, dairy-based ingredients, product innovation, and alternative proteins.