Michelle Ji Yeon Yoo is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in food digestibility and the development of value-added foods.
Yoo completed a Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology with honours at the University of Auckland, and then followed this with a PhD titled Development and application of an in vitro physicochemical upper gastrointestinal system (IPUGS) simulating the human digestive processes at Monash University.
Her research was supervised by Xiao Dong Chen.
[3][4] Yoo is a Auckland University of Technology food science programme leader and Deputy Head of Research for the School of Science.
[2] She is also an associate investigator in the Riddet Institute, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence focusing on 'fundamental and strategic scientific research in food'.