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Joseph Galani

Dr Joseph Galani Yamdeu

Lecturer in Food Science

School of Psychology and Life Sciences

I joined CCCU in 2021 and I'm a university lecturer and researcher in food science and nutrition, with experience in Africa, Europe and Asia.

I have a PhD in plant and food biochemistry obtained in 2014 from Anand Agricultural University in India, from where I moved to Cameroon to start a junior academic career as an Assistant Lecturer at the Universite des Montagnes. After 3 years of rich experience in Cameroon, aiming for more exposure at an international level, I secured a postdoctoral fellowship at Ghent University in Belgium in 2017.

The short stay in Belgium allowed me to strengthen my skills in advanced methods in food analysis, which lead me to the School of Food Science and Nutrition of the University of Leeds from 2018 to 2021, where I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in biochemical food safety within the AFRICAP Project.

I joined Canterbury Christ Church University, Section of Natural and Applied Sciences, in December 2021. I have multidisciplinary skills in agricultural sciences, plant and food biochemistry, analytical chemistry, pathology, and molecular biology; which are applied for: increasing crop productivity and food demand; improving the health of farmers and consumers, while safeguarding our environment. I am interested in research at the nexus of food systems, climate change, nutrition and health.

  • Microbiology, Level 4
  • Food Chemistry, Level 5
  • Field to Fork: Farming systems and food production, Level 5
  • Course Advocate for Food Science & Nutrition

My research career has been driven by my interest in sustainable food systems that will provide more nutritious and safer foods, improve farmer’s and consumer’s health, while better preserving our environment, in a climate changing world. My multidisciplinary skills are applied in research for:

(i) identifying the key drivers of food loss before and after harvest;

(ii) quantifying in foods, and reducing the health risk associated with food contaminants like pesticides residues, acrylamide and mycotoxins;

(iii) improving the nutritional quality and health-benefiting compounds in foods during post-harvest storage and processing; and,

(iv) developing alternative methods for crop protection against pests and diseases.

Within the Section of Natural and Applied Sciences at CCCU, I envision to develop research at the nexus of food systems, climate change, nutrition and health. Specifically, I envisage to assess the risk-benefit of future climate change and climate-smart agricultural practices on food systems, food quality and the anticipated impact on human health, beginning with examining the nutritional quality and safety quality of prominent food crops produced under conditions of future climate. Risk‐benefit assessment of foods is a new decision-support tool for estimating the beneficial and adverse health effects on human, following exposure or lack of exposure to a particular food or food component, and to integrate them in comparable measures.

Research Projects

  • Nutritional quality of composite flour breads from Cameroon.. Researcher(s): Mrs Etta Bull. Supervisor(s): Dr Joseph Hubert Galani Yamdeu, Dr Asma Ahmed. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • Risk-benefit assessment of staples in Central Africa and the effect of climate change: Case study of Maize (Zea mays L) in Cameroon.. Researcher(s): Mr Christian Ndogmi Yoniwo. Supervisor(s): Dr Joseph Hubert Galani Yamdeu, Dr Alec Forsyth, Dr Naeem Syed. [Postgraduate Research Project]

Affiliations:

  • Association of Applied Biologists. Royal Society of Chemistry. Advance HE. 
  • Journal Editorship: Cameroon Journal of Biological and Biochemical Sciences (Editor-in-Chief), CABI Agriculture and Bioscience (Associate Editor), Annals of Applied Biology (Editorial Board), Open Agriculture (Editor-Food Science, and Language Editor).
  • Consultancy: to support the agrifood industry with chemical and nutritional analysis, including macronutrients, trace elements, toxins, allergens, residues, and processing contaminants.
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joseph.galaniyamdeu@canterbury.ac.uk
01227923170
Becket (Bf31), Canterbury

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Faculty of Science, Engineering and Social Sciences
School of Psychology and Life Sciences