Nutrition, Fitness and Health Management

Biography

Dr. Vijai Shukla (born March 23, 1948) is an Indian-Danish food scientist, researcher and professor in lipidology, and a central figure in the study of essential fatty acids. He is also the President of the International Food Science Center based in Denmark,Fellow of the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS)and Adjunct Professor to the Department of Food Science and Nutrition University of Minnesota. Shukla has authored close to 120 peer-reviewed papers,reviews and book chapters, and 15 books. He was the Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed journal INFORM from 1989–97 and remains Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society and of Lipid Technology. In 1996 he received the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS) Herbert Dutton Award for “significant contributions to analytical methodologies” and was given the prestigious Stephen S. Chang Award in 2002 for “decisive accomplishments in research for the improvement or development of products related to lipids”. In 1990 he joined Karlshamn as Research Director, and started his own company in 1991, IFSC, of which he is still President.Shukla’s research includes both the field of physical phenomena and the mechanisms of autoxidation, isolation of lipids, spectral phenomena related to lipids (e.g. pulsed Nuclear magnetic resonance), modern analytical methodology, and involvement of essential fatty acids in health and disease such as multiple sclerosis and Batten Disease where he has made significant scientific contributions

Research Interest

Professor, Dr Vijai K S Shukla is author of nearly 100 original scientific publications, 12 invited review papers, 15 book chapters in the areas of biochemistry, human nutrition,cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals, enzymology, modern analytical techniques for the separation of lipids and proteins. Editor of six books.