Dr Kai Knoerzer is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Agriculture and Food, specialising in advanced food process engineering. He holds a BSc in Process Engineering, an MSc in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD (summa cum laude) in Food Process Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Since joining CSIRO in 2006, his work has focused on innovative processing technologies, including high-pressure thermal processing, ultrasonics and megasonics, advanced extrusion, and intelligent modelling. Kai has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, edited five books, contributed multiple book chapters, and is an inventor on seven patents. He is the Editor-in-Chief of “Innovative Food Processing Technologies – A Comprehensive Review” and is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at international conferences in food engineering and processing. His current work integrates artificial intelligence and hybrid intelligence approaches with engineering methods to improve process design, optimisation and validation. He also co-leads a major international collaboration funded by the Bezos Earth Fund on AI-enabled circular-economy approaches for future food production. Kai has led national and global partnerships and contributes actively to professional societies and initiatives across food science and technology.