Mahya Bahmani

Biography:

Dr. Mahya Bahmani holds a Master’s degree in Agricultural Biotechnology from the University of Tehran, where she specialized in pulse crop transcriptomics. In 2019, she was awarded an Australian Government Research Training Scholarship and completed her PhD at Edith Cowan University in 2023, focusing on proteomics to investigate malting quality in barley and gluten protein changes during food processing. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CSIRO, applying mass spectrometry-based proteomics and peptidomics to identify and characterize bioactive peptides from food and agricultural waste. Her research aims to transform underutilized agricultural by-products into high-value functional ingredients, contributing to the development of sustainable food systems.