Professional Bio

Dr. Micha Peleg is a Professor Emeritus of Food Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He got his B.Sc. In Chemical Engineering, and M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Food Engineering and Biotechnology from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. His main interests are particulates technology, characterization of the texture of brittle (“crunchy”) cereals and snacks, food rheology, interpretation of quality control records and risk assessment. In recent years his research focused on modeling the kinetics of microbial inactivation, growth, and injury, and bacterial spores germination. Currently he is engaged in a NASA sponsored project on mathematical modeling of the kinetics of vitamins degradation in space foods, and predicting their loss during long storage. (Web page http://people.umass.edu/aew2000/).