Prof. Dr. Brijesh Kumar Tiwari currently works at the Food Chemistry and Technology Department, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland. He received his M.Sc. from the Central Food Technological Research Institute, India, in 2003 and Ph.D. from University College, Dublin, Ireland, in 2009. His research interests relate to novel food processing, extraction and preservation technologies, with a strong focus on the investigation of biochemical and microbial kinetics in food and food products. He is particularly interested in the investigation of technological aspects (nutritional, microbial, enzymatic and chemical inactivation phenomena) in thermal and non-thermal processing studies.