Julia Kigozi, is an Agricultural Engineer, specializing the training and research of Food Process Engineering related courses. She is a senior lecturer at Makerere University, the leading public University in Uganda and currently serves as the Dean, School Food Technology, Nutrition and Bioengineering, Makerere University. Her research focuses on Agro-processing Solutions including; post handling of crops, design and optimization of food engineering operations, design of food processing equipment and Food processing plant design. She has 51 published papers and 1 patent to her name. She has over 10 years’ experience consulting in this area and has been involved in the design and construction of several agro-processing equipment, product optimization and food process design. She has worked with communities in the post-harvest handling of fruits, grain and Mukene fish (Silver fish). She now runs a project in which MSME’s in the Agro-processing industry are empowered to meet the capacity and quality of products for the local and export markets. She is also the founder and managing Director of Jazi Agro-processing Solutions Ltd, a company that provides solutions for the agro-processing industry in provision/procurement of agro-processing equipment, design, setup and management of processing facilities, optimization of food products and training of agro-processors to meet quality and capacity for the market. Contact Email: jbulyakigozi@yahoo.com Tel: +256 772 609 649 |