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Dr. Rogers returned to the University of Guelph as an Associate Professor (with tenure) in 2015 and the following year was appointed a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Food Nanotechnology. In 2023, he was promoted to Full Professor. He obtained his M.Sc. under the supervision of Dr. H. Douglas Goff and his Ph.D. under the tutelage of Drs. Alejandro G. Marangoni and Amanda J. Wright. During his doctoral studies, he held a prestigious NSERC PGSD scholarship to study self-assembly – an area he actively studies today. After his Ph.D. (UofG) he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan (2008-2011). In 2011 he moved to Rutgers University (NJ, USA) and held simultaneous positions as an Assistant Professor in Food Science & as Director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Physiology at IFNH (new Jersey Institute of Food Nutrition & Health).
Dr. Rogers took a leadership role in the State of the Science Team for the ILSE NanoRelease Food Additive initiative. This group summarized the four other task group’s findings and reported their summary in ACS Nano, a leading journal in all fields of Nanotechnology. In 2018, he was elected to the Users Executive Committee (UEC) at the Canadian Light Source due to his involvement in synchrotron agriculture research. In 2017-2020, he was appointed Adjunct Professor in Dept of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo. Dr. Rogers served two terms as Vice-Chair (2016-2017) and a term as Chair (2017-2018) for the Edible Applications Division of the American Oil Chemists Society. He is an Associate Editor for Food Biophysics (Springer) (2015-current), Heliyon (Cell Press) (2017-2020), Guest Editor “Innovation in Food Science” for Current Opinion in Food Science (2017), an editorial board member for Current Opinion in Food Science (2018-2020), and Section Editor of Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Food Chemistry (Vol 1: Food Ingredients) (2019), for which he acted as the handling editor for 50 chapters on ingredient technologies in the food industry.
Recent Journal Covers
A full list of Dr. Rogers peer-reviewed publications with active links to articles can be found on the Publications page.
Awards and Honors
Dr. Rogers strongly believes in the true sense of the Academic-Scholar model. To propel Canadian Innovation, the brightness minds MUST inspire the next generation- the class sitting before them and every graduate student in their respective department. Dr. Rogers’ excellence in both is recognized.
In 2015 Dr. Rogers was awarded The American Oil Chemists Society Young Scientist Award. It recognizes a young scientist who has made a significant and substantial research contribution in one of the areas represented by the Divisions of AOCS. Sponsored by International Food Science Centre A/S. In 2014, while at Rutgers University, he was awarded the Endel Karmas Award for Excellence in Teaching and the inaugural Directors Award for Scientific Excellence from IFNH. Additionally, he won a Young Scientist Award, from the International Union of Food Science and Technology in 2008. In 2016, he was named one of Guelph’s 40 under 40.
