Manoj Sawale is a Ph.D. student in Food Science at Purdue University. He is working under the guidance of Dr. Dharmendra Mishra on microbial inactivation kinetics during aseptic thermal processing and validation of aseptic fillers. His goal is to estimate the inactivation parameters (D and z values) for surrogate microorganisms with a TP-cell (Thermal Properties measurement instrument) and impact of vapor hydrogen peroxide sterilization on aseptic food and beverage packaging containers and aseptic fillers. He will also be working on novel rapid detection methods for surrogate microorganisms that can be used for validation of processes.

In 2008 Manoj completed his Master of Science in biotechnology from Bangalore University India. He has 7+ years of work experience with ONGC-TERI Biotech Ltd India. He has served as Petroleum Microbiologist where he worked with anaerobic and aerobic fermentation for large scale production of bacterial strains using appropriate GMP and GLP. In OTBL, he worked on three different technologies; MEOR (Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery), PDB (Paraffin Degrading Bacteria), and Bioremediation of oily sludge. He has served as a lab manager and was responsible for overall operation for tertiary oil recovery in the Gujarat region. He has submitted two genome sequence of thermoanerobacterium sp in NCBI. He interned at Haffkine biopharmaceutical Ltd., Mumbai where he obtained brief exposure on aseptic vaccine production and process validation. In 2018, he joined Purdue University's Department of Food Science as a Graduate student.

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