Dr. Monika Sharma started her career as Scientist in ICAR in 2010 and was posted at ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana, Punjab, India till Nov. 2015. She is currently working as Scientist (Food Science & Technology) at Southern Regional Station, ICAR-NDRI, Bengaluru and actively involved in teaching and research activities. She holds a Ph.D (Dairy Technology) from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal, Haryana and has completed M.Sc. (Food Technology) from GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, India. She has worked in the area of convenience and ready to eat foods, functional foods, quality evaluation, composite dairy foods, starch modification etc. She has so far 20 research papers, 2 technical bulletins, 2 technology inventory books, 4 book chapters, about 20 popular articles, more than 15 conference papers to her credit. She has successfully guided two post graduate students. She has worked as PI and Co-PI in about 07 research projects and has developed about 20 technologies. She has also conducted entrepreneurship development program for some of developed technologies and also transferred one technology to two entrepreneurs.
