Dr. Brian Freeland is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biotechnology at Dublin City University and the Programme Chair of the Masters in Bioprocess Engineering. He graduated from DCU in 2005 with a degree in Mechatronic Engineering, completing his master’s in Mechanical and Process Engineering in 2009 and his PhD in 2020. He received the post of Lecturer of Bioprocess Engineering in the School of Biotechnology in 2015 and became Assistant Professor of Bioprocess Engineering in 2020. He is Co-Lead on the Grain-4-Lab project and a Principal Investigator in the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre at DCU. He is also the 2020 winner of the Faculty of Science Richard O’Kennedy Award for Emerging Talent (early career stage). Currently, his main research interests are bioprocess development, PAT, bioprocess control, automation, and biomaterials.