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Quality of life - Health - Food
Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering (SayFood)
Research unit
SayFood - Food and Bioproduct Engineering is a research unit newly created by INRAE and AgroParisTech. This unit, which houses 150 employees, will be located (from 2022) in the research and innovation ecosystem of the Saclay plateau (Ile de France). Sayfood's mission is to acquire new scientific knowledge and to propose new approaches in product and process engineering, applied to bioresources. Thus, the unit aims to contribute to the development of new sustainable food systems by working in interdisciplinarity on the 'design-consumption' continuum. To conduct its research, Sayfood draws on a set of disciplines covering food science, microbiology, process engineering and consumer science.
Innovation themes
22 place de l'Agronomie
Campus Agro Paris-Saclay
91120 PALAISEAU
Expertises
- process engineering
- chemistry / physico-chemistry of food and materials
- packaging / container interactions
- analytical chemistry
- microbiology / microbial ecosystems
- biotechnologies
- consumer science
- modeling / optimization
Applications sectors
- Other business
- Agri-food industry
- Other industry
- Tourism / Accommodation / Catering
- Packaging
Total number of employees
Number of researchers : 77
Number of doctoral students : 29
Equipment(s) open to collaboration
- computing cluster for simulation
- experimental cooking for sensory and consumers studies
- technological hall equipped with tools for transformation at the artisan scale or pilot https://www.pluginlabs-universiteparissaclay.fr/fr/entity/915022-genial-halle-technologique-genial-umr-agroparistech-inra
- Francilien plateau of cereal studies (FRECE) https://www.pluginlabs-universiteparissaclay.fr/fr/entity/915027-genial-plateau-francilien-detudes-cerealieres-frece
Keywords
Projects examples
Industrial and scientific relations
Scientific collaborations
- food science and physico-chemistry: University ofLaval (Canada), University of Hidalgo (Mexico)
- process engineering and reaction engineering: UK Leuven (Belgium), University of Baléares (Spain)
- packaging: University of Caracas (Venezuela)
- analytical chemistry: University Charles Sturt (Australia), University of Lebanon (Beyrouth, Lebanon)
- safety of materials in contact with food: Fraunhofer IVV (Freising, Germany), FDA (USA)
- sensory analysis: University of Davis (USA)
- modeling: University of Surrey (Great-Britain)
Private collaborations
Many CIFRE thesis (50%), various partnerships: IAA, cosmetics, automotive or energy, in relation with VSEs, SMEs and international groups.
Establishments of affiliation
