Assistant Professor; Co-director, Integrated Food and Bioprocess Engineering ProgramT: 514-398-7776听 |听 ebenezer.kwofie [at] mcgill.ca (Email) |听 Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS1-025 |
Degrees
Ph.D., Bioresource Engineering, 捆绑SM社区, Montreal, Canada
M.Sc., Industrial Engineering (Specialization in Quality and Environmental Management) University of Bor氓s (H枚gskolan i Bor氓s) Bor氓s, Sweden
B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Short Bio
Ebenezer Miezah Kwofie is an assistant professor of food systems sustainability and resilience in the Department of Bioresource Engineering on the Macdonald campus of 捆绑SM社区. Prior to joining 捆绑SM社区 as a faculty, he held a joint appointment at the Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and the Food Science Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Between 2016 and 2020, he served as manager of International Food Systems Development projects at 捆绑SM社区, coordinating projects in Zambia, Malawi, Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Honduras. These projects were focused on enhancing food systems sustainability and strengthening capacity of stakeholders (farmers, farmer cooperatives, food enterprises, Non-Governmental Organizations, local government departments). He completed his PhD at the Bioresource Engineering Department, 捆绑SM社区, working on circular economy pathways for agro-waste utilization.
Awards and Recognitions
2021: Distinguished Young Alumni Award, Macdonald Campus, 捆绑SM社区
Awarded to outstanding recently graduated alumni (within the last 10 years) from the Macdonald Campus of 捆绑SM社区
2015: CIBC Fellowship Award, 捆绑SM社区
Awarded to outstanding graduate student at the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (Macdonald Campus, 捆绑SM社区)
2015: First Place Award - NABEC Oral Presentation
Awarded to an outstanding graduate student for oral presentation of research during the Northeast Agricultural and Biological Engineering Conference (NABEC) in Delaware, US.
2014: Second Place Award - NABEC Oral Presentation
Awarded to an outstanding graduate student for oral presentation of research during the Northeast Agricultural and Biological Engineering Conference (NABEC) in Kemptville, Ontario Canada
Research Interests
Dr. Kwofie鈥檚 research explores the connectivity and dynamics of environmental, economic, and product-process quality to address food system sustainability and resilience. The first component of his research focuses on Industrial Agrifood Systems Eco-Efficiency Optimization which involves (i) industrial lifecycle sustainability assessments (environmental LCA, Life Cycle Costing (LCC)/Techno-economic assessments and Social LCA) and identifying hotspot for eco-efficiency improvements, (ii) evaluating pathways for agrifood circularity through techno-eco-environmental modelling using an integrated physics-based and real-time digital counterparts of the pathways. The second component focuses on the development of decision support systems for sustainable healthy food choices and the trade-offs of the food systems trilemma (food processing techniques, nutritional quality/health implications, and environmental impact). One output of this research is the development of the DISH platform 鈥� an environmental-nutrition platform for point-of-purchase sustainability decisions. The platform is currently being tested by food manufacturing and food service enterprises.
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