Dr. Sinija currently working as Professor and Head, Department of Food Process Engineering at NIFTEM-T has acquired her Ph.D. and M. Tech. (Post-Harvest Engineering) degrees in Agricultural & Food Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur after her B. Tech. (Agricultural Engineering) degree from Kerala Agricultural University. She was awarded with National Doctoral Fellowship by AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) New Delhi, for carrying out her research work. She has 19 years of teaching and research experience in the field of food processing. Dr. Sinija is member of Academic council, Board of Studies and Board of Examinations of various institutions across the country. Her research works have been published as research papers in 98 peer reviewed journals, 23 popular articles, 16 book chapters, one edited book and more than 100 international and national conference proceedings and 3 patents. She is also life member of various professional bodies like AFST (I), ISAE, ISTE etc. She is also a reviewer of various national and international journals and received the reviewer excellence award for 2 international journals. She completed 36 grant in aid research projects and 5 projects are ongoing.

She has been received the prestigious Prof. Jeevan Singh Sidhu Award for the year 2018 by the Association of Food Scientists and Technologists (India) for the teaching Excellency. She has been also received the Bharat Vikas Award by Institution of Self Reliance, Bhubaneswar for the outstanding performance in food research and incubation. Also, for the year 2022 she has been conferred the Dr. V Subramnyan Best Scientist Award from NIFTEM-Thanjavur.

As the head of the Food Processing Business Incubation Centre (FPBIC) prior to Head, DFPE, she has coordinated more than 1000 skill development training programs, and 142 budding entrepreneurs have successfully set up their food processing businesses through the skill development programme and consultancy services of FPBIC. She is the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) coordinator of NIFTEM-T under which 4 batches of trainees successfully completed the bakery technician course of one-month duration. She is also the NIFTEM-T Coordinator for Prime Minister Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PM FME) scheme.

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