Biography

Kirk Dolan has joint appointments in Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition (lead), and Department of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering. His research is on modeling thermal processing of foods (canning, drying, aseptic, etc.), and on inverse problems and parameter estimation. His research group is a leading user of MATLAB with COMSOL for parameter estimation, and has demonstrated new statistical analysis methods for food researchers. He is the chairman and organizer of the triennial Inverse Problems Symposia at Michigan State University. His extension work includes organizing and co-teaching the FDA-mandated Better Process Control School for certification, co-teaching an annual HACCP course to industry, and assisting Michigan food entrepreneurs with FDA product registration.