Dr. Neeraj Pathak

Dr. Neeraj Pathak is an Assistant Professor and Faculty Head for the Division of Fisheries Science, he is also in charge-head for the Fish Processing Technology and the Department of Fisheries Engineering at The Neotia University, DH road, Sarisha, West Bengal, India. He is also serving as Academic Coordinator of the Division. He received his doctorate in the subject of Fish Quality Assurance and Management from the Department of Fish Quality Assurance and Management at the Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Fisheries University in Tamil Nadu, India. He also holds a master’s degree in Fish Processing Technology from Junagadh Agriculture University. He has teaching experience of seven years of various organizations throughout India. He has recently awarded with “Young Fisheries Scientist Award” in the International Conference (SCALFE-2023) held during 28-30 April at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla (jointly organised by many International and National Universities and other organizations). He has also received a “Young Scientist Award” in 2019 at the 3rd International Conference GIASE 2019, Nepal and another “Young Scientist Award” award by Kalash Research and Welfare Society on the occasion of National Symposium on “Global Warming Vs Biodiversity and Society” (NGBS-2019).   His areas of interest in the research include Fish Processing Technology, Seafood Thermal Processing (Developed a pasteurization technique for soft shell blue swimming crabmeat in Ph.D. research work), and Emerging Fish Quality and Safety (Including value chain analysis for crabmeat, Seafood authentication, Traceability, Exposure of Nanoscience Technology of Scanned Electron microscopy and Transition Electron Microscopy for the crabmeat, Exposed to handle all quality analysis advanced instrument Viz. ICPMS, GCMS, SEM, TEM,  LCMS, TPA ). He has published a number of books, manuals, and original research articles (with a highest impact factor up to 7.001) in National and International publishers