Nigel P. Brunton has an MSc and PhD from the School of Agriculture and Food at University College Dublin, where is currently an associate professor. He has 30 years of expertise in food chemistry, sample extraction and chromatography analysis. He has worked at and specialises in the area of phytochemicals and recovery of valuable compounds from food waste. He works with a range of companies including those interested in recovering products from waste, those that develop technologies to recover food ingredients, and those that seek to use valuable recovered products.