About The Scientist

Mariam Yakubu is a trained Food Technologist trained to appreciate and resolve industrial food constraints. She employs techniques from food safety and quality, food production management and food chemistry in her research works and other duties. She is also trained in international food regulation, data management, and project management.

Mariam has experiences in product optimization and standardization, identification, and characterization of bioactive compounds, evaluating nutritional composition in food, simulation of in-vitro digestion model, solid-solvent extraction, report writing, etc.
Recent works have included, standardizing and optimizing production process of some food commodities, part-time teaching of food quality and safety management, quality of shea butter, coordinating of technical and scientific review meetings.

I currently manage R&D information of the Institute and double as a Researcher.