Prof. Dr. Giovani L. Zabot is a professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) - Cachoeira do Sul Campus and a permanent member of the Postgraduate Program in Agricultural Engineering (PPGEA). He completed his degree in Food Engineering in 2011 at the Integrated Regional University of Alto Uruguai and Missions (URI)-Erechim Campus. In 2015, he completed his PhD in the Postgraduate Program in Food Engineering at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), being awarded the CAPES Thesis Prize in 2016. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Food Engineering at UNICAMP (2015-2016) and in the Postgraduate Program in Nanosciences at UFN (2017-2018). He works in the areas of Agricultural Sciences I and is Coordinator of the Agroindustrial Process Engineering Laboratory (LAPE) at UFSM-CS. He serves as a member of the Editorial Board of 8 journals, he is an Ad Hoc consultant for projects submitted to CAPES, FINEP, CNPq, FAPESQ and CONCYTEC (Peru), and he is a reviewer of articles for 139 international journals.