Director, Hydrocolloids Research Centre, Allied Health Division, University of Chester,, UK
Saphwan Al-Assaf
Director, Hydrocolloids Research Centre, Allied Health Division, University of Chester,
UK
Professor Al-Assaf graduated in 1988 with a first-class degree in Chemistry (Mosul University). He gained his MSc (1994) and PhD (1997) from Salford University in the field of radiation and solution properties of hyaluronan and cross-linked form (Hylan). Subsequently he took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Glyndwr University Wrexham (formally North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, NEWI) working on the characterisation and modification of hydrocolloids. He moved to Chester University in August 2015 to lead the Hydrocolloid Research Centre at the Institute of Food Science & Innovation. Professor Al-Assaf has secured research funding from various industrial collaborators and has published over 100 papers. Professor Al-Assaf serves on the editorial board of a number of Journals and acts an associate editor for the Journal of Future Foods.
