Faculty

Pavel Somavat

Pavel Somavat

Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering

236 Agricultural Engineering Building

Phone: 573-882-4533

Email: psbvb@missouri.edu

Biomedical, Biological and Chemical Engineering

Biography

Pavel Somavat is an assistant professor with the Department of Biomedical, Biological and Chemical Engineering and also also Food Science in the College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources at the University of Missouri. His research interests include corn processing, preparation and stability of natural food colors, effects of processing on bioactive compounds in food, application of induction heating for food processing and process simulations.

Education

PhD, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MS, Information and Communications Engineering, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Germany
BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Maharshi Dayanand University, India

Technical Focus

Corn processing

Preparation and stability of natural food colors