Dr. Manisha Maity, is an Assistant Professor and HOD of the Department of Food and Nutrition of Swami Vivekananda University. She completed her graduation in 2010 from Vidyasagar University and received a silver medal for securing second position in the University.
She completed her master’s degree from BESU, which was formerly known as BE College, in the year 2012. She earned her PhD from IIEST, Shibpur, in 2022 in the area of Microbial Biotechnology. Immediately after submitting her thesis, she joined as an Assistant Professor at Swami Vivekananda University, and has been serving as the Head of the Department (HOD) for the past 3 years. She has more than 30 publications, including journal publications and book chapters. Among them, some of the publications are SCI and Scopus indexed. Dr. Maity has edited four books, and two books are under processing. She is currently guiding four research scholars who are pursuing their PhD. She has worked as an external examiner at various institutes like