On 5 May in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr Delia Rodriguez-Amaya was one of eight researchers conferred with the title of Emeritus Researcher of CNPq, the Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Advancement of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the principal official research foundation of Brazil, equivalent to the US National Foundation of Science. Granted to a maximum of 10 eminent researchers since 2005, this title recognises the totality of a researcher's scientific contributions.
Delia Rodriguez-Amaya holds a BS in Food Technology from Araneta University (Philippines), an MS in Food Science from the University of Hawaii, and a PhD in Agricultural Chemistry from the University of California – Davis.
She is currently President of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (2014-16), the first woman to hold this position. From 1977 to 2010, she was professor of the Faculty of Food Engineering of the University of Campinas. She was adviser of 48 master and doctoral defended theses. She is the author of 247 scientific publications (books, book chapters, research and review papers), the majority in international circulation. She has given more than 220 invited lectures/seminars in 30 countries. She is editor or member of the Editorial Board of 6 international scientific journals and 2 Brazilian scientific journals.
Her three monographs (A Guide to Carotenoid Analysis in Foods; HarvestPlus Handbook for Carotenoid Analysis; Carotenoids and Food Preparation: The Retention of Provitamin A Carotenoids in Prepared, Processed and Stored Foods) are widely read and cited as basic references in a total of more than 1,400 (as of April 2015) research and review papers.
She was research fellow 1A (highest category) of the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Advancement, Ministry of Science and Technology) for 20 years. She participated in various FAO-WHO Expert Consultation Meetings and in committees of the Ministry of Health and the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST). She represented the area of food science and technology in the Commission for Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and was a member of the Advisory Committee of Food Science and Technology in CNPq for two terms.
She has received many awards, including the 2012 Presidential Award (Philippine Heritage), the 2010 East-West Center Distinguished Alumni Award, the Zeferino Vaz Research and Teaching Recognition Award three times (1994, 1997, 2003), the 2005 Andre Tosello Award, and the Philippine Association of Food Technologists’ 50th Anniversary Recognition Award (2010).
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Dr. Hariyadi is a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST) and Senior scientist, SEAFAST Center; Professor, Dept. Food Science and Technology, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia.
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