New ERA Chair Team Member – Senior Researcher

Bakht Ramin Shah, Ph.D.

Position: ERA Chair Team Member – Senior Researcher

Research Focus: Human Nutrition, Food Technology, Complex Colloidal Systems, Bioactive Compounds Encapsulation, In Vitro and in Vivo Evaluation, Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods

Bakht Ramin Shah received his Ph.D. in Food Nutrition and Safety (in December 2015) at the Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan P.R. China, where his research was focused on the synthesis and characterization of polymeric nano and microparticles for the fabrication of emulsions-based systems to be used as delivery vehicles for bioactive compounds as well as other drugs. Thereafter, he completed his postdoc fellowship at Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Before joining Drift-Food ERA Chair, he worked as a Professor (Full) and Head College of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Ziauddin University Karachi, Pakistan. Here in the Czech Republic, he worked as a researcher at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, the Charles University in Prague and as a Research Scientist at the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia. He also has worked as a lecturer at the department of Human Nutrition Agricultural University Peshawar and District Nutrition Coordinator with Merlin International UK. 

He has more than 12 years of research experience and has been listed in World’s Top 2 % Scientists Based on Stanford and Elsevier Data 2024. He is the author and co-author of 61 published IF journal articles on Scopus with 27 h-index and one book chapter published by Springer Nature, having total citations of more than 2900.

In his current research he mainly focuses on the formulation of novel nutraceuticals and functional foods based on encapsulated bioactive compounds, in particular for the treatment and management of metabolic diseases like obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.