Lionel Boillereaux is a Professor at Oniris in Nantes, conducting research at the GEPEA, CNRS Joint Research Unit. He is currently an Associate Director at Oniris for the Food Science and Technology Campus. He obtained a PhD degree in Process Control from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1996, and supervised about 15 PhDs, nine of which were in the field of microwave processes. His research interests are the modeling, simulation, and control of processes.