
Overview
Background
Cresha Gracy Nadar has newly joined the Centre for Crop Science at QAAFI as a Postdoctoral Research fellow. Cresha has an engineering background in the field of Biotechnology and has pursued a Ph.D. in the field of Bioprocessing from IIT Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia. Her Ph.D. research was about developing a novel biorefinery process from fruit processing waste and performing sustainability assessment using life cycle analysis. At QAAFI, Cresha is further exploring the environmental footprint assessment in the fields of food processing, biotechnology and other agriculture domains.
Availability
- Dr Cresha Gracy Nadar is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Masters (Extended), DY Patil University
- Doctor of Philosophy of Bioprocessing, Bioproduction and Bioproducts, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Research interests
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Sustainability Assessment
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Bioprocessing
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Food processing
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Biotechnology
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Assessing biochar's impact on greenhouse gas emissions, microbial biomass, and enzyme activities in agricultural soils through meta-analysis and machine learning
Bai, Jinze, De Almeida Moreira, Bruno Rafael, Bai, Yuxin, Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Feng, Yongzhong and Yadav, Sudhir (2025). Assessing biochar's impact on greenhouse gas emissions, microbial biomass, and enzyme activities in agricultural soils through meta-analysis and machine learning. Science of the Total Environment, 963 178541, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178541
2024
Journal Article
Waste to protein: a systematic review of a century of advancement in microbial fermentation of agro-industrial byproducts
Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Fletcher, Andrew, Moreira, Bruno Rafael de Almeida, Hine, Damian and Yadav, Sudhir (2024). Waste to protein: a systematic review of a century of advancement in microbial fermentation of agro-industrial byproducts. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 23 (4) e13375, 1-18. doi: 10.1111/1541-4337.13375
2022
Journal Article
Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste
Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Arora, Amit and Shastri, Yogendra (2022). Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste. ACS Engineering Au, 2 (2), 61-74. doi: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.1c00025
2019
Journal Article
Green and clean process to obtain low degree of polymerisation xylooligosaccharides from almond shell
Singh, Ramkrishna D., Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Muir, Jane and Arora, Amit (2019). Green and clean process to obtain low degree of polymerisation xylooligosaccharides from almond shell. Journal of Cleaner Production, 241 118237. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118237
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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