V. Palanimuthu

Dr. V. Palanimuthu is currently working as the Director of National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management-Thanjavur, India. He has an experience of over 30 years under various capacities of teaching/research/extensio. He has served as special officer, college of Agricultural Engineering, GKVK and as university head (Agril. Engg) Division, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru. Dr. Palanimuthu has published peer reviewed scientific publications, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has supervised around 30 post gradute students and Ph.D students. He has developed and commercialised various agricultural processing gadgets/machines and process technologies. He has also handled 19 externally funded projects and 49 ICAR-AICRP projects. He has also established centre of excellence (Small millets) for processing and value addition in GKVK. He is member of several professional bodies. He has received best teacher award from UAS, Bengaluru, India.