Pilanee Vaithanomsat was born in 1973 in Bangkok, Thailand. In 1995, she received a full scholarship from the Thai Government and obtained her Ph.D. from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London in 2000, under the supervision of Prof. Katherine A. Brown. After that, she worked as a researcher at Kasetsart Agricultural and Agro-Industrial Product Improvement Institute (KAPI), Kasetsart University, Thailand. In 2005, she received the Best Researcher Award from Kasetsart University. In 2006, she received the Award for the Best Innovation from the Council of University Administrative Staff of Thailand. In 2013, she once again received the Best Researcher Award from Kasetsart University. Her research interests include insect proteins as a food supplement, yeast and fungal carbohydrates as immuno-stimulating agents for animals, and microbial biopolymers for animal tissue engineering.