Roopa Rai

Roopa Rai is a research engineer at Western University since January 2020 and has been with Parmalat Canada Inc since April 2007, holding various roles including Research & Technical Project Manager, Research & Quality Systems Specialist, and Research and Quality Systems Analyst. Rai's responsibilities have included providing technical support for Corporate Quality Assurance and Research activities, maintaining product life cycle databases for food ingredients, and preparing technical documentation for Quality Assurance. Prior experience includes a role in Quality Assurance at Cargill, focusing on food safety and HACCP principles, and as a microbiologist at Unilever, where sample collection and microbial analysis were key tasks. Roopa Rai holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Western University, an MSc in Food Science from The University of Western Australia, and a Master's degree in Food Microbiology and Dairy Sciences from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.