Christopher Simmons
Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
Researcher
Christopher is a Professor and Department Chair for the Food Science and Technology Department at the University of California, Davis. Christopher's research focuses on improving energy and water use efficiency in food processing by reclaiming energy from waste biomass streams and developing strategies for waste water treatment and recycling. Specifically, high-throughput, massively parallel sequencing and bioinformatics approaches are used to characterize microbial communities that are able to deconstruct waste biomass into fermentable sugars under industrial conditions. These data are used to discover enzymes and molecular pathways that can improve industrial bioconversion of waste biomass into biofuels. Additionally, the microbial ecology of plant-soil systems exposed to food processing effluents is studied to develop strategies for recycling of food processing waste water to agriculture.
Project Involvement
Improving Tomato Quality and Safety by AI-Driven Supply Chain of Optimization and AI Prediction of Losses at Specific Stages
AI Prediction of Fruit Bruising, Serum Leakage, and Spoilage During Transportation of Processing Tomatoes to Processing Facilities
