Dr. Bahar Aliakbarian is an associate professor within the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and Director of Research and Development at the Axia Institute at Michigan State University.

Dr. Aliakbarian received her Ph.D. in Chemical, Material and Process Engineering from the University of Genoa (Italy) in 2009. She has multidisciplinary research experiences focusing on the integration of fundamental of food, biochemical, micro- and nano-engineering technologies that leads to the formulation of new products with food and biomedical applications. Her research particularly focuses on the environmentally-friendly strategies to develop value-added products from the wastes generated in the food processing plants and along the food supply chain.