Norhasnida Zawawi

Dr. Norhasnida Zawawi has been an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) since 2019. She has joined the Australian Native Bee Association (ANBA) subcommittee for the development of native bee honey standard application to Food Standards and Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) since 2020. Currently based in Malaysia, she is a senior lecturer at the Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology (FSTM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and a food and nutritional scientist affiliated with two laboratories, the Laboratory of Functional Carbohydrate and Protein at FSTM and Laboratory of Halal Science at the Halal Products Research Institute, both in UPM. Her administration and research responsibilities include being a member of the Working Group for Kelulut Honey (native bee honey) Standard under the Department of Standards Malaysia, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), Malaysia, and Vice President of the Task Group for Stingless Bee Honey Standard elected by Apimondia Asia. Recently, she has been appointed as an Editorial Board Member of the Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, one of UPM's publications and have had experiences as reviewer of scientific manuscripts in her field of research for many high-impact factor journals such as Food Research International, Current Research in Food Science, Food Bioscience and Journal of Apicultural Research. Together with QAAFI research team, she has made the discovery of a rare sugar (trehalulose) as the primary sugar available in the native bee honey during her 9 months research attachment in 2018. As the principal investigator for 7 research projects, she was awarded grants from UPM and government ministries amounting to RM906,340.00. Currently, thirty-seven of her research publications are Scopus-indexed with a total of 624 citations, earning her the H-index of 17.