Wang Tao (in the middle) with her friends and colleagues from Dalian Fisheries University; XiaoJie Nie (left - fellow 2006 and a PhD student at the Univ. of Iceland) and Pan Lanlan (fellow 2009 - right)
Today, December 8 , Mrs. Wang Tao from China and a UNU Fellow in 2005 defended successfully her
PhD dissertation in Food Science from the Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Health Sciences,
University of Iceland.
Her work was on
Enhancing the quality of seafood products through new preservation techniques and seaweed
based antioxidants – Algal polyphenols as novel natural antioxidants. Mrs. Wang is the first UNU fellow on a UNU-FTP scholarship to
finish a PhD degree in Iceland. Part of her dissertation is based on the work she did during her six months training at the
UNU-FTP. The UNU-FTP staff congratulates her and is extremely proud of her accomplishment.
