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Prof. Solomon
Academic Rank
Professor

EDUCATION

  • B.Sc.Chemical Engineering, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia 2004.
  • M.ScProcess Engineering and Design, India institute of technology (IIT Delhi, Delhi, India, 2007.
  • PhD.  Bioscience engineering,Experience on postharvest technology, University of Leuven (KULeuven), Leuven, Belgium, 2013

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, June 27, 2019 - to date
  • Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, March 2014-June 26, 2019
  • Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Sept. 2007- Sept. 2008

Research experience:

  • PhD students Co-advising and Student Advisory committee (SDAC) member: 06 Co-advising and 02 SDAC : Total 08 
  • Masters students advised/advising : 20 advised/advising and 5 Co- advised/advising: Total 25
  • Team leader for the national project on “Study of Agro-Food processing industries in Ethiopia: Policy and strategy options for its development (2015-2025)” Funded by FDRE, Policy study and research center. Duration of the project was from Feb 2015-March 2017
  • Team leader for the national project on “Piloting of postharvest handling and preservation of fresh produces and animal source foods” Funded by land o’lakes international development fund. Duration of the project was from Jan 2018- October 2018
  • Member for the international project on BDU-IUC postharvest project. Funded by Belgian government. Duration of the project is from Jan 2017- Jan 2022.
  • Member of the Horticulture Executive Committee for The Agriculture and Environment Sector Professionals Advisory Council for ANRS and team leader for Preservation of perishable produces. Funded by Bureau of agriculture (BOA). Duration of the project is Sep 2019- Sep 2020  

Profesional activity

  • Organizing committee and chair person of 1st National Conference on Postharvest Loss Management (PHLM) for Improved Livelihood and Sustainable Development (PHLM-2018).
  • Organizing committee and chair person of 2nd National Conference on Postharvest Loss Management (PHLM) for Improved Livelihood and Sustainable Development (PHLM-2020).
  • Editor for  International Conference on Advancement of Science and Technology (ICAST-2018 ) proceeding, Published by Springer Nature Switzerland  
  • Editor for ICAST-2019 proceeding,Published by Springer Nature Switzerland
  • Technical program committee (TPC) for ICAST- 2019
  • Technical program committee (TPC) for ICAST- 2020
  • Curriculum reviewer for MSc and PhD in chemical engineering at Addis ababa  Science and Technology University.  August 07/2017
  • Curriculum reviewer for MSc  in chemical engineering (Material science and engineering and Enviromental engineering specilization) at Adigrat University.  August 21/2018
  • Curriculum reviewer for M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering at Defence University. June 22, 2019
  • Reviewer for journal and conference proceedings (Zede, Agriculture and food security journal, ICAST-2018 and ICAST-2019)

Award

  • The third prize of the scholastic award for the year 2001/2002 from the Ethiopian society of chemical engineers (ESCHE) for my outstanding achievement as third year chemical engineering student of the Bahir Dar University.
  • The second prize of the scholastic award for the year 2002/2003 from the Ethiopian society of chemical engineers (ESCHE) for my outstanding achievement as fourth year chemical engineering student of the Bahir Dar University.

Research Book

  • Solomon Workneh Fanta., Fentahun Tesafa., Admasu Fanta., Melkamu Mengistnew (2017). Agro-food processing industry development policies and strategies in Ethiopia (2015-2025). FDRE, Policy Study and Resarch Center-PSRC. (311pp)

INSTITUTIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • PhD program Coordinator for the Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University, 2018- present
  • Chair holder of postharvest technology,for the Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University, 2017- present
  • Home grown postgraduate coordinator of for the Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University, 2017- present
  • Director of faculty of chemical and food engineering,Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University, 2013- 2015
  • Head, Chemical engineering department, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University, 2008- 2009

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

  • Ethiopian Society of Chemical Engineers

PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS IN LAST FIVE YEARS
Journals:

  • Fanta, S.W., Shukla, A. (2008). Synthesis of sodalite octahydrate zeolite-clay composite  membrane and its use in separation of SDS. Journal of Membrane Science, 309:189-195
  • Fanta, S.W., Vanderlinden, W., Abera, M., Verboven, P., Karki, R., Ho, Q.T., Feyter, S.D., Carmeliet, J., Nicolai, B.M. (2012). Water transport properties of artificial cell walls. Journal of Food Engineering, 108:393-402
  • Fanta, S.W., Abera, M., Ho, Q.T., Verboven, P., Carmeliet, J., Nicolai, B.M.(2013). Microscale modeling of water transport in fruit tissue. Journal of Food Engineering, 118:229-237
  • Fanta, S.W., Abera, M., Aregawi, W.A., Ho, Q.T., Verboven, P., Carmeliet, J., Nicolai, B.M.(2014). Microscale modeling of coupled water transport and mechanical deformation of fruit tissue during dehydration. Journal of Food Engineering, 124:86-96
  • Abera, M., Fanta, S.W, Verboven, P., Ho, Q., Carmeliet, J., Nicolai, B. (2013). Virtual Fruit Tissue Generation Based on Cell Growth Modeling. Food and Bioprocess Technology, 6:859–869.
  • Abera, M., Fanta, S.W, Verboven, P., Van Liedekerke,P., Nicolaï ,B., J. Carmeliet,J.(2011). Virtual fruit tissue generation using cell growth modeling. Actahorticulturae, 919(919):107-114.
  • Verboven, P., Nicolai, B., Verlinden, B.,  Abera, M., Fanta, S.W., Ho, Q.(2009). Multiscale modeling of gas exchange in fruit tissues. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology 153(2)
  • Ho, Q., Verboven, P., Fanta, S.W, Abera, M., Retta, M., Herremans, E., Defraeye, T., Nicolai, B. (2013). A multiphase pore scale network model of gas exchange in apple fruit. Food and Bioprocess Technology, 7 (2), 482-495.
  • Abera, M., Verboven, P., Herremans, E., Defraeye T., Fanta, S.W, Ho, Q., Carmeliet, J., Nicolai, B. (2013). 3D Virtual Fruit Tissue Generation Based on Cell Growth Modelling. Food and Bioprocess Technology, 7(2), 542-555.
  • Abera, M., Verboven, P., Defraeye, T., Fanta, S.W, Hertog, M., Carmeliet, J., Nicolai, B. (2014). A plant cell division algorithm based on biomechanics and ellipse fitting. Annals of Botany, art.nr. DOI:10.1093/aob/mcu078.
  • Aregawi, W., Abera, M., Fanta, S.W, Verboven, P., Nicolai, B. (2014). Prediction of water loss and viscoelastic deformation of apple tissue using a multiscale model. Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter.
  • NeelaSatheesh& Solomon Workneh Fanta. (2018)  Review on structural, nutritional and anti-nutritional composition of Teff (Eragrostistef) in comparison with Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.). Cogent Food & Agriculture, 4(1)
  • Karta K. Kalsa, BhadrirajuSubramanyam, GirmaDemissie, RizanaMahroof, Solomon Workneh, NigusGabbiye.Mortality of Sitophilus granarius (L.) and Rhyzoperthadominica (F.) Adults Exposed to Different Concentrations of Filter Cake in Stored Wheat (2019). Ethiop. J. Agric. Sci. 29(1) 99-107.
  • Bedewi Bilal, Solomon Workneh Fanta, NeelaSatheesh. (2019) Kinetic based simulation of fixed bed gasifier and performance study on syngas production from different biomass. Ethiopian Journal of Science and Technology.
  • Solomon Workneh Fanta &NeelaSatheesh. (2019). A review on nutritional profile of the food from enset: a staple diet for more than 25 percent population in Ethiopia’. Nutrtion and food science
  • Neela Satheesh & Solomon Workneh Fanta. (2019)  Review on nutritional composition of orange‐fleshed sweet potato and its role in management of vitamin A deficiency.Food science & nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.1063
  • Melese,Bethlehem, Satheesh,Neela .,Solomon Workneh Fanta (2019).EMMER WHEAT -AN ETHIOPIAN PROSPECTIVE: A SHORT REVIEW. Annals. Food Science and Technology. 20(1), 89-96
  • Karta Kaske Kalsa ., Bhadriraju Subramanyam., Girma Demissie., Rizana Mahroof., Admasu Worku., Nigus Gabbiye., Solomon Workneh., Fetien Abay (2019).Susceptibility of Ethiopian wheat varieties to granary weevil and rice weevil infestation at optimal and sub-optimal temperatures. Journal of Stored Products Research. 83, 267-274

Conference Proceedings

  • Fanta S., Abera M., Ho QT., Verboven P., Nicolai B., Carmeliet J. (2010). Calculation of effective permeability of a fruit cortex tissue from microscopic simulations. In: Cadavez V., Thiel D. (Eds.), FOODSIM'2010. International conference on simulation and modelling in the food and bio-industry 2010 (Eds.) (59-62). Presented at the FOODSIM, Braganca,Portugal, 24 Jun 2010-26 Jun 2010.
  • Aynadis Molla, Sajid Alavi, Bhadriraju Subramanyam, Solomon Workneh, and Nigus Gabbiye (2018) Performance Comparisons of Solar Mixed and Indirect Dryers for Maize Grain Drying. ICAST 2018, LNICST 274, pp. 145–159, 2019. Presented at the ICAST 2018, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, October 5-7, 2018
  • Tesfaye Alamirew (&) Solomon W. Fanta (2018) Kinetic Modeling and Gas Composition Analysis During Sawdust Pyrolysis. ICAST 2018, LNICST 274, pp. 267–273, 2019. Presented at the ICAST 2018, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, October 5-7, 2018
  • Karta Kaske Kalsa, Bhadriraju Subramanyam, Girma Demisse, Admasu Worku, Solomon Workneh, Nigus Gabbiye(2019 )On-farm Performance and Assessment of Farmers’ Perceptions of Hermetic Bags for Farm-Stored Wheat and Maize in Northwestern Ethiopia Presented at the ICAST 2019, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, August 2-4, 2019
  • Eshetu Getahuna, Maarten Vanierschot , Nigus Gabbiye , Mulugeta A. Delele , Solomon Workneh , Mekonnen Gebreslasie (2019) Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of Red Chili Solar Cabinet Dryer Presented at the ICAST 2019, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, August 2-4, 2019
  • Tewodros A. Zewdie, Solomon W. Fanta, Melkamu A. Workie, Getachew A. Damot, Enyew Adgo, Jan Nyssen, Mulugeta A. Delele, Pieter Verboven, Bart Nicolai (2019) Effect of curing conditions and harvesting stage of maturity on ethiopian onion bulb drying properties. Eurodrying’2019, pp. 429-435, 2019. Presented at the Eurodrying’2019, Torino, Italy, July 10-12, 2019

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