Indrawati Oey

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Indrawati Oey
Born29 April 1971 (1971-04-29) (age 52)
Malang, East Java, Indonesia
Alma mater Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Scientific career
FieldsFood Science
Institutions Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Otago
Thesis

Indrawati Oey (born 29 April 1970 [1] ) is a New Zealand food scientist, full professor at the University of Otago. [2]

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Early life and education

Oey was born in Malang, East Java, Indonesia in 1970. [3]

Academic career

After a PhD at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Oey moved to the University of Otago and rose to full professor and head of the Department of Food Sciences. [2] [4] [5] [6] She is a principal investigator of the Riddet Institute, a national food research centre in New Zealand. [7]

Her work has focused on the biochemical reactions that affect multiple aspects of food quality, including texture, flavour, colour, and nutrition. [8] At Otaga, she has led a project on applications of pulsed electric field equipment to improve food quality and efficiency of processing. [9] She has also worked on edible food packaging to tackle problems of current plastic packaging. [10]

Honours and awards

In 2016 Oey was elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology. [11] [12]

Selected works

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