Roger Parker

Senior Research Scientist

Research Area: Food Structure and Health

Contact Details:

Institute of Food Research,
Norwich Research Park,
Colney, Norwich,
NR4 7UA
UK
roger.parker@ifr.ac.uk

Research interests

The theme of my research is the physical chemistry of biopolymers aimed at understanding their functionality in foods and related products in the human gastrointestinal tract. We are developing tools (e.g. dual polarisation interferometry) and techniques to probe interactions within biopolymer interfacial assemblies. These potentially have applications to site-directed or controlled delivery of bioactives in the gastrointestinal tract and so the aim is to understand the rules governing the assembly and incorporation of these structures into real food systems together with their release characteristics and, through collaboration, their subsequent absorption behaviour.