Ilan Arvelo
Ilan Arvelo is a Ph.D candidate at Texas Tech University and he describes himself as a multidisciplinary scientist. Some of the areas in his list of skills include: food safety, engineering and technology, experimental design, statistical analysis, databases development, computer programming in R language, chemical properties, plant design and evaluation and more.
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Consulting ​for the development of experimental designs, planning of experiments execution, and data analysis are the main areas in which Ilan plays a key role in research project teams. He has participated in projects that evaluate physical and chemical interventions to control food-borne pathogens in food products and food processing plants. The main objective of those projects are to quantify how effective interventions like UV light, heat, organic acids, or antimicrobial products affect the survival of food-borne pathogens and use that information in the benefit of public health.
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He has been recognized several times for academic performance. On March 30, 2018 he received the Bob Albin outstanding PhD graduate student research award, 1st place on the Graduate School Poster Competition 2017 and 2016, and honor recognition for the maximum GPA of the graduates' promotion of Chemical Engineers on 2011.
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He received his Master of Environmental Engineering from University of Valladolid at Spain in 2014 and his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Francisco Miranda at Venezuela.
Prior to start his current position as a Research Assistant in the Animal and Food Sciences department at Texas Tech University, Ilan worked at different scientific fields.
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As a process engineer in the petroleum refining center in Venezuela, researcher in the area of green-house gases abatement with bioreactors in the University of Valladolid, and estimation of the carbon footprint of water treatment processes.
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Now his research involves part of all the scientific areas in which he has been involve, evaluating the use of a standardized methodology for reducing pathogenic biofilms in food processing environments.
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Mail: ilan.arvelo@ascientificadvisor.com / arveloy@gmail.com
Phone: +1 806-620-3754
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