Minaxi Sharma received her Ph.D. in Dairy Chemistry from the National Dairy Research Institute. She is currently working as a senior researcher at CARAH (Belgium) and also worked as a Senior Research Fellow (ERA-Chair, EMU, Estonia) and Assistant Professor (Eternal University, India). Her research is focused on the areas of green extraction technologies for extracting various bioactive compounds from food waste and plant byproducts, the development of functional foods using different encapsulation strategies, vegan food development, and plant protein processing technologies for increasing the nutritional value of various food products. She has been awarded the "Young Scientist Award" by the Society for Bioinformatics and Biological Sciences (SBBS), India (2020).