World of Coffee San Diego 2026

Yukun Niu
Research Technician
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Yukun Niu is a research technician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She obtained her Master's degree from the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at the North Carolina State University (2024) under the guidance of Dr. Gabriel Keith Harris. Her research is focused on understanding how food processing affects the health properties, especially coffee roasting and extracting, using a combination of analytical techniques, such as HPLC, and physicochemical analysis assays.

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