• Chemistry - Materials
  • Complex systems and software engineering
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  • Social - Societal - Solidarity Innovation

Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering (SayFood)

Research unit

Description

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.

Contacts

  • Mrs Violaine ATHES_DUTOUR

https://umr-sayfood.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/

Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering (SayFood)

Innovation themes

Map and access

22 place de l'Agronomie
Campus Agro Paris-Saclay
91120 PALAISEAU

Our research areas

Expertises

- ingénierie agro-alimentaire et des bio-productions
- génie des procédés
- chimie/ physico-chimie des aliments et des matériaux
- interactions emballage/contenant
- chimie analytique
- microbiologie / écologie microbienne
- biotechnologies
- sciences de la consommation / analyse sensorielle
- modélisation /optimisation

Applications sectors

  • Biotechnology
  • Agri-food industry
  • Education / Training
  • Cosmetics
  • Environment
  • Packaging

Total number of employees

Total number of employees : 170
Number of researchers : 76
Number of doctoral students : 31

Equipment(s) open to collaboration

Academics and industry:
- 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

Our results

Projects examples

The new research projects focus on some model products: sponge cake, emulsion, systems blocked with starch and fruits purée

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.

Ecosystem

Establishments of affiliation

AgroParisTech

Département(s) de recherche

  • SDV (Life sciences)