Dr. Saima Inayat is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Dairy Technology, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Ravi Campus, Pakistan and holds DVM, M.Sc (Hons.) degree in (Dairy Technology), Ph.D in (Dairy Technology). She conducted her Ph.D research work at the Department of Food Science, Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, Canada on rheological and microstructural study of Cheddar and Mozzarella cheeses. Dr. Saima Inayat has basic expertise in the field of Dairy Technology, especially in cheese making with a special emphasis on soft unripened cheese prepared from Camel Milk. She focuses her teaching and research on Buffalo and Camel milk based products development, fermented and concentrated dairy products like yoghurt and cheese, cheese making properties of milk as related to processing treatments, methodology of microbiological and chemical analysis of milk and indigenous milk products, dairy processing, milk sampling and its analysis. Dr. Saima Inayat has more than 18 peer reviewed research publications, in which 9 are impact factor publications, 7 international publications, have 5 conference proceedings, won two times travel grant, and she is an author of 3 books. Presently, she is involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate classes, under her supervision four postgraduate students have been passed their degrees as a supervisor, seven have passed as a member, and others are under process. She worked as a Co-PI in HEC funded project “Development of a process for the production of protein isolate from buffalo milk”. Other projects as a PI and Co-PI are under process. She has more than 12 years of teaching and research experience.

Dairy product development and value addition. Analysis of milk and milk products. Mozzarella and Cheddar cheese manufacturing technolog Yoghurt and fermented food product development Dairy rheology and microstructure Food safety and food quality Buffalo and Camel milk based product development Sensory & organoleptic evaluation