Miloslav Kaláb
Miloslav (Miloš) Kaláb, Ph.D., was a full-time Principal Research Scientist at the Centre for Food and Animal Research, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa until August 1995. Now, partly retired, he continues - part time - in electron microscopy studies of foods and foodborne microorganisms at the Food Research Program in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
As a native (1929) of former Czechoslovakia, Miloš obtained his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in chemical engineering at technical universities in Brno and Bratislava, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in chemistry at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Before he came to Canada as a National Research Council post-doctorate fellow in 1966, he had already gained practical experience as a sugar factory chemist, research chemist at a food refrigeration research institute, research scientist in the area of waste water purification at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Palacký University in Olomouc, and associate professor and chairman of the Department of Organic and Biological Chemistry at the same university in Czechoslovakia. Following the invasion of his native country by the Warsaw Treaty armies in 1968 while he and his family were still in Ottawa, he joined the then Food Research Institute at Agriculture Canada and has settled in Canada.
He has specialized in electron microscopy of foods, particularly milk products, and expanded his interest from heat-induced milk gels to other dairy products, particularly yogurt and cheese. The American Dairy Science Association awarded him with the 1982 Pfizer Award for his contribution to dairy research. Together with 3 American scientists, Dr. S. H. Cohen, Dr. Eugenia Davis, and Dr. D. N. Holcomb, Miloš established a new scientific journal, Food Microstructure (later renamed Food Structure) published from 1982 by Scanning Microscopy International (Dr. Om Johari) in Chicago, IL, USA, and then he served as the Editor-in-Chief until 1994 when the publisher discontinued the journal.
With the other editors of Food Structure, Miloš co-organized international meetings of food microscopists for many years. In 1986 he served at the National Dairy Research Institute in Karnal, Haryana, India, as a United Nations Organization consultant, with the objective of extending there the use of electron microscopy in dairy research. In 1989, he obtained a scholarship from the government of Japan to share his expertise in food structure studies with Japanese scientists at the National Food Research Institute in Tsukuba. Later he enjoyed his work as a visiting scientist at the Department of Food Science, Utah State University in Logan.
Dr. Kaláb is an editorial board member of the European Food Science & Technology (LWT) journal. He has published over 140 scientific and technical papers, 3 book chapters on electron microscopy of foods and cheese, 1 encyclopedia chapter on the microstructure of foods, and co-authored a book chapter on processed cheese.
He maintains a large number of Web sites. The starting point is entitled "Foods under the microscope" at http://www.magma.ca/~scimat/, where all updates are announced. The greatest volume of information is on the server of the Department of Food Engineering at the University of Lund in Sweden which has generously provided Miloš with server space. Advice to beginning authors is available under the title How to write scientific manuscripts.
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