Associate Professor Azam Ali
- Job title
- Associate Professor and Director, Bioengineering Programme
- Telephone
- +64 3 479 7456
- azam.ali@otago.ac.nz
- Section
- Bioengineering Research group / Centre for Bioengineering & Nanomedicine
- Department
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Division
- Division of Health Sciences
- Campus
- Dunedin
Social Media
Expertise
Science and Technology
- Materials/biomaterials sciences and bioengineering (medical devices/tech. and regen. medicine)
- Polymers/biopolymers (proteins/carbohydrates), micro/nano structure materials and nanotechnology
- Formulations, microencapsulation and slow/controlled released technology (biomolecules delivery)
- 3D printing technology
- Soft and hard tissues engineering and regenerative medicine
- Smart fibres/textile (medical textile), wearable textiles (health and well-being applications)
- Chemically interactive materials (CIM) and biosensor
- Point of Care (diagnostics)
- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Bioplymers, colloidals and interface sciences
- Functional foods and non-foods materials
- Functional packaging (e.g. edible and value-added packaging)
- Active and intelligent packaging
- Biobased materials: animal, dairy, plant and marine wastes/co-products for valude-added products
- Biomolecular engineering and interaction (e.g. bioconjugations)
- Bioactive molecules, rheology, colloidal sciences
- Functional foods, packaging (functional and edible) and sustainability
- Extraction, processing and separation technology, proteins and polysaccharides
- Biomolecules/bioactive delivery system, technology and efficacy analysis
