Professor Xiao Dong Chen

BE, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1987
PhD, Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1991

Professor, Chair of Biotechnology and Food Engineering
Associate Dean International, ACCEER

email: dong.chen@eng.monash.edu.au
tel: +61 3 9905 9344
fax: +61 3 9905 5686
Room 206, Building 36 Engineering

Research Information Page

Biotechnology and Food Engineering (BFE)

Professional Appointments

2007-Present: Associate Dean International, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University
2006-Present: Adjunct Chair Professor of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
2006 - Present: Professor, Chair of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, and Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland (www.ecm.auckland.ac.nz).
2001- 2006: Professor of Chemical Engineering (Personal Chair), The University of Auckland.
2004 - 2006: Professorial Principal and Inaugural Chair of Strategic Development, Riddet Centre of Food Research, Joint Centre of Excellence between Auckland, Massey and Otago University.
2003 - Present: Company Director, Freezcon (Auckland) Ltd.
1998 - 2001: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering,The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
1995 -1997: Senior Lecturer of Chemical Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
1993- 1994: Lecturer of Chemical Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
1993-1993: Senior Research Engineer, New Zealand Dairy Research Institute.
1991-1993: Research Engineer, New Zealand Dairy Research Institute.
1987-1987: Assistant Research Engineer, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

Professional Affiliations

Professional societies

Fellow of Australian Technological Sciences and Engineering
Fellow of Royal Society of New Zealand
Fellow of Institution of Chemical Engineers UK (Fellow)
President of Food Engineering Association of New Zealand (1999-2006)
Senior Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Member of the Society of Biological Engineers (AIChE Branch)
Member of the Society of Chemical Engineers New Zealand

Journal editorial boards

Founding editor International Journal of Food Engineering (BePress USA)
Associate Editor Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (IFT)
Subject Editor (Heat and Mass Transfer) Transactions of IChemE Part A: Chemical Engineering Research and Design (2004-)
EAB Member of Separation and Purification Technology (Elsevier) (2005-)
EAB Member of Drying Technology (Taylor & Francis) (2003-)
EAB Member of International Journal of Food Properties (Taylor & Francis) (1998-)
EAB Member of Journal of Food Process Engineering (Blackwell) (1999-)
EAB Member of International Journal of Postharvest Technology and Innovation (Inderscience Publishers, Swiss) (2005-)
EAB Member of Developments in Chemical Engineering and Mineral Processing (2006-)
EAB Member of Int. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (UoM) (1999-)

Special issue editor and co-editorships

Chemical Engineering and Processing (Applications of Chemical Engineering in Food Industry, 2000)
Drying Technology - An International Journal (World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 2001)
Drying Technology - An International Journal (IDS Beijing Papers, 2002)
Separation and Purification Technology (APPChE Conference Papers, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2003-4)
Developments in Chemical Engineering and Mineral Processing (Food and Bioproducts Processing, 2004)
Drying Technology - An International Journal (Spray Drying, 2004-5)
Separation and Purification Technology (Separations in Food Industry, 2005)
Chemical Engineering and Processing (Advanced Applications of Chemical Engineering in Food Industry, 2006)
Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering (CHEMCA2006 papers, 2007)

Current Research and Professional Interests

Drying of food and biological materials including spray drying, microstructure studies of food products including powdered materials, heat and mass transfer process fouling, cleaning of process surfaces including membranes, additives to mitigate fouling in heat exchangers, transdermal drug delivery, human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) engineering and modeling, pH influences on protein gel structure, micro-encapsulation using micro-fluidic device, ink-jet device applications in food technology and biotechnology, biofilm development in food processing, freeze concentration and freeze drying, modeling of transfer processes and chemical reactor systems including fermentation processes. Most recently, some work on baking mechanisms and spontaneous heating processes are also being conducted.

Invited, Keynote and Plenary Lectures at Conferences

Chen, X.D. (2001) Modelling Whey Protein Based Fouling of Heat Exchangers - Further Examining the Deposition Mechanisms. UEF Conference on Heat Exchanger Fouling - Fundamental Approaches and Technical Solutions, Davos, Switzerland (Keynote).
Chen, X.D. (2002) Heat-Mass Transport and Micro-structural Aspects of the Drying of Single Droplets Containing Food Solids/solute - Recent Development, Drying'2002, Beijing, China (Symposium Keynote).
Chen, X.D. (2002) Food Process Engineering - A Promising Branch of Chemical Engineering, Chemeca'2002 & 9th APCChE (2002), Christchurch, New Zealand (Keynote).
Chen, X.D. (2002) Recent developments in food process technology and its industrial applications - a chemical engineer's view point. Seminar Teknik Kimia Soehadi Reksowardojo 2002 - Penelitian dan Pengembangan untuk Mendukung Daya Saing dan Kemandirian Industri Kimia, 24-25 October, Institut Teknologi Bandung, pp.6-9 (Plenary).
Chen, X.D. (2003) Keeping the Process Surface Clean, 2nd Food Safety Submit, New Zealand (Invited Lecture).
Chen, X.D. (2003) Food safety in relation to surface keeping; Spraying drying technology for dairy powder manufacture, International Forum for Worldwide Chinese Food Scientists, Guang Zhou, China (Keynote Lecture).
Chen, X.D. (2004) Heat transfer problems in food industry, The 6th International Symposium of Heat Transfer (6-ISHT), Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China (Symposium Keynote).
Chen, X.D. (2004) Food powder microstructure, functionality and stickiness. International Workshop and Symposium of Drying Technology, Mumbai, India (Symposium Keynote).
Chen, X.D. (2005) Fouling of Heat Exchangers (APEC) 1st International Symposium on CO2 Reductions and Sequestration (ISCDRSI), Seoul, Korea, 19 January (Invited Lecture).
Chen, X.D. (2005) Food Powder formation during air drying, The 38th Annual Convention of Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia, 13th July (Invited Lecture).
Chen, X.D. (2005) Food Engineering as an Advancing Branch of Chemical Engineering, Chemeca 2005, 25-28 Sept, Hilton Brisbane, Australia (Plenary).
Chen, X.D. (2005) Food Engineering – an advancing branch of chemical engineering, November 17, 2005, Auckland, New Zealand (Engineering Dean’s Lecture).

Awards and Honours

1995 Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Engineering, The University of Auckland
1999 Shedden Uhde Medal for Excellence in Practical Services to the Profession and Practice of Chemical Engineering in Australasia, Chemeca'99, Newcastle, Australia
2000 Young Food Engineer Award, ICEF-8 World Congress of Engineering and Food, April, Puebla, Mexico
2000 Elected to Fellow of Royal Society of New Zealand
2001 Elected to Fellow of Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK)
2002 Merit Award for the Best Paper (John A Brodie Medal), 9th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineers Conference, Christchurch, NZ
2002 E R Cooper Medal, Royal Society of New Zealand (for the best work carried out in the past two years in physics and engineering in New Zealand)
2003 Shell Distinguished Visitor Fellowship, Chemical Engineering Department, Cambridge University
2004 Senior Visiting Scholar, Thermal Engineering Department, Tsinghua University
2001-2004 Top 20 lecturers, School of Engineering, The University of Auckland
2005 (John) Hood Fellow*, The University of Auckland;* Professor John Hood is the present VC of Oxford
2005 Nanqiang Lecturer (Highest Academic Speaker) at Xiamen University, China
2006 Inaugural Fonterra Award, Outstanding achievement in practical and commercialisation of food and biological engineering research in Australasia
2007 Award of Excellence in Drying Research. This is an award for an expert with excellent drying research demonstrated, especially in the frontier areas, such as bio, nano, or other advanced materials as well as development and exploring of new drying technologies. One of the four major awards given at The 5th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference, 13-15 August, Hong Kong, 2007.
2007 Certificate of Merit in Recognition of His Outstanding Sustained Service to Drying R & D, Drying Technology (one of the two given at Taylor and Francis sponsored EAB dinner at ADC 2007).
2007 Best Paper Award, One of the three given at The 5th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference, 13-15 August, Hong Kong, 2007
2007 Elected Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
2007 One of the Science-meet-Parliament members representing ATSE, Canberra, Australia

Publications

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Academic Contribution and Technical Publications

Supervised to completion as the main supervisor over 14 PhD and 37 ME students, and as one of the two main supervisors over 6 PhD students.
Have over 250 international journal publications and 170 refereed conference publications, three NZ/Aust provisional patents, 1 book (Springer) and 1 book (Blackwell), and a number of book chapters. There are also over 50 technical reports prepared for private companies.