Trung Nguyen

Casual Professional

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Bedford Park

Dr Trung Nguyen is an experienced researcher with practical and strong research expertise in food processing and recovery, biorefinery and intensified process development, designing and optimising process, green and sustainable production. He had several years working in food industry, commercialisation, product development and quality management. He obtained his PhD in Medical Biotechnology from Flinders University in 2017 and started researching at Centre for Marine Bioproducts Development in Flinders University since 2019. Presently, he leads research on developing innovative technologies for biorefinery of functional nutrients and natural products from marine bioresources for commercial products development. He has research interests in innovating food for health, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products development, green and sustainable production, intensified process development for natural products extraction and bioproducts processing, process modelling and optimising. He has published his works in different prestigious journals of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Marine Drugs, Bioresources and Bioprocessing, Food and Bioproducts Processing, Innovation Food Science and Emerging Technology.

Qualifications

PhD - Medical Biotechnology, Flinders University (2017)

Master - Food Technology, Can Tho University (2010)

Engineer - Food Technology, Can Tho University (1999)

Honours, awards and grants

2016 - The Marine Midas Award of Medical Biotechnology, Medicine School, Flinders University

2016 - The Flinders Golden Key of the Golden Key International Honour Society

2011 - The Australian Award Scholarship (AAS) of Australian Government

Key responsibilities

Leading research on developing innovative technologies for biorefinery of functional nutrients and natural products from marine bioresources for commercial products development

Seeking funding sources, collaboration and applying for research grants

Supervising students

Supervisory interests
Bioactive foods
Bioactive natural products
Biomass biorefinery, bioproducts development