Abenezer Tadele Desta

Lecturer and Researcher, Food Engineering /Faculty of Chemical and Food Engineering

Email፡abenetadele@gmail.com/abenezer.tadele@bdu.edu.et

Phone: +25192163841

Office፡ Tana Block, Room 304, BIT

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=new_profile&hl=en
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1423-0856
•  Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aben
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Biography

Abenezer Tadele is an educator and researcher specializing in Food Engineering and Postharvest loss management. His work focuses on identifying the major problems of food loss starting from preharvest to postharvest practices and designing and developing the most essential parameters for during processing of different food products with nutritionally rich food products and as well as bringing back to the market the domestic food products. He is  currently a PhD candidate working on Investigating the level, causes and solutions of enzymatic browning of avocado in Ethiopia: experimental and modeling under the Supervision of Prof. Solomon Workneh at Bahir Dar Institute of Technology and co-supervised by Prof. Mulugeta Admasu at Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy, Potsdam, Germany. Abenezer is actively engaged in research and teaching.

Educational Background

• MSc in Food Technology – Bahir Dar University
• BSc in Food Technology and Food process Engineering –Bahir Dar University

Core Expertise & Research Interests

• Fruit and Vegetable Enzymatic Browning, 
• Food Antimicrobial development
• Food Packaging material
• Coffee and spice formulation, Fortification
• Pre and Postharvest loss management 
• Food Processing , Engineering & Preservation;
• Food Safety & Quality Engineering;
• Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals
• Leadership

Key Publications & Projects

• Evaluation of Preliminary Phytochemical Constituents and Antibacterial Activity of Edible Plants against Urinary Tract Infection Causing Bacteria in Children KM Arun Thangavel1*, Omprakash Sahu1, Saravanan Ponnappan1, Abenezer Tadele1.Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Biochemical Technology, 7.
• Molecular detection of mecA gene from Methicillin Resistant Coagulase Negative Staphylococci. GAAT Arun Thangavel1, Abenezer Tadele, Chandrasekaran Rajamanickam2, Omprakash Sahu1.  Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology research 7 (Issue 2), Page No: 11-16

Teaching & Academic Duties

• Undergraduate Courses: Applied Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, mechanical unit operations, Fluid mechanics, Food machinery, Alcholic and non-alcoholic Beverages,-Starch Technology
• Institutional Roles: Teaching, Research, participation in affairs,, participation in community engagement, Student Research advising, Training Manual preparation