Institution

University of Delaware

Based in

United States , Newark

Languages

English

Short Bio

Dr. Kalmia (Kali) Kniel is Professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD). She holds a Masters degree in Molecular Cell Biology and a PhD in Food Science and Technology focused on microbiology of foodborne pathogens. Her teaching responsibilities include courses on foodborne disease, food microbiology, food systems and security. Dr. Kniel’s research includes understanding mechanisms of environmental persistence by bacteria, protozoa, and viruses in pre-harvest agricultural environments. Dr. Kniel leads the One Health certificate program and directs the Center for Environmental and Wastewater Epidemiological Research. Dr. Kniel is co-author on the textbook, Food Microbiology: An Introduction, more than 110 scientific publications, and more than 200 published abstracts for presentations. In 2015 she was awarded the UD Outstanding Teaching and Advising Award and the Elmer Marth Outstanding Educator award by the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP). In 2020 she was awarded the UD Outstanding Researcher Award. In 2022 she was awarded the IAFP Maurice Weber Laboratorian Award for distinguished laboratory contributions. Dr. Kniel is active with Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and IAFP, where she was elected to the board in 2015 and served as IAFP President in 2020. Most recently Dr. Kniel has served on and chaired meetings of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment of Viruses in Foods and appointed to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee on Healthy Soils Health People.

Other Expertise

One Health Food and Nutrition Security Food Borne Pathogens Surveillance Food Safety Education One Health Education Pathogenesis of Zoonotic Bacterial and Viral Infections