As Professor in the School of Agriculture, he has academic experience of more than 25 years in the disciplines of Food Science and Technology, Vocational Education and Food Safety and Quality Management. A Dairy Technologist from the National Dairy Research Institute and later part of the teaching fraternity, Prof. Salooja diversified into educational planning and vocational education by serving as Senior Research Officer in the Planning Commission and Reader in the NCERT, respectively. He was awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship for Post doctorate at CSIRO, Australia and Jawaharlal Nehru Award of ICAR.