Wouter Saeys obtained his Master’s degree in Bioscience Engineering from KU Leuven in 2002 and was awarded the engineering prize by the Royal Flemish Society of Engineers (KVIV) for his Master thesis. In 2006, he obtained his PhD in Bioscience Engineering from KU Leuven under the supervision of Professors Herman Ramon and Josse De Baerdemaeker. As a postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO-Vlaanderen), he specialised in light transport modelling during a six-month stay at the School for Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, under the supervision of Dr. Suresh Thennadil, and in Chemometrics during a six-month stay at the Norwegian Food Research Institute – Matforsk, Norway, under the supervision of Dr. Tormod Naes. In 2010, he was appointed as assistant professor at the KU Leuven Department of Biosystems, where he leads the biophotonics group with a focus on applications in the agrofood chain and is responsible for the Masters course of Biosystems Engineering. His main research interests include light transport modelling and optical characterisation of biological materials, chemometrics, agricultural automation, and robotics. In 2013, he was awarded by the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) with the ‘Young Statistician Award’ for his work on multivariate calibration of spectroscopic sensors in the agrofood industry. Since 2019, he has been a professor at KU Leuven.