Zied Khiari is an internationally educated researcher. He graduated from university in Tunisia with a Bachelor of Engineering in food processing. He then received his Master of Science in chemistry of natural products in Greece and a doctorate degree in food science in Ireland.

In 2011, Zied joined University of Alberta as a postdoctoral fellow for four years. He developed environmentally-friendly processes for the extraction of functional ingredients from meat waste and tested them in the pilot plant of the Food Product Development Centre in Leduc, Alta.

In 2015, Zied was awarded a highly competitive Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellowship, which allowed him to work on several industrially relevant projects within the Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment at Cape Breton University, N.S.   

Areas of expertise

  • bioprocess engineering
  • food and environmental sciences
  • valorization of agricultural/food waste

Current research project

Made possible by a five-year, $2.1 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), this Integrated Fish and Plant Systems project is addressing critical issues relating to the production of aquaponics, including food safety, consumer acceptance and economic ROI. Find out more about this project.

Publications and presentations