Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen’s Post

🌱 50 MILLION TO REVOLUTIONIZE FOOD PRODUCTION🥙 We're thrilled to welcome Remko Boom to the Department, who has joined us as our new Professor in Food Material Engineering. He is joining us with a Novo Nordisk Foundation RECRUIT grant of DKK 50 mil. for his new project, AI4NaturalFood. The project aims to revamp the way we produce plant-based foods by using mild processing and combining food science with data science expertise to fully utilize the emergence of artificial intelligence. This will enable the project to create new methods for experimentation that generate sufficient data and enable the creation of AI models to interpret that data. “Mild processing has a lot of variables: so many things to interact with each other and capturing all this is difficult. This is why machine learning is such a focal point of the project. It could perhaps ultimately predict how food products will turn out before even starting the production process. In the future, it could even help us determine which crops are best suited for specific food applications," says Remko Boom. Remko joins us from Wageningen University & Research, where he has spent the past 26 years working on plant-based foods. Among his many notable achievements receiving the Hoogewerff Gold Medal, a lifetime achievement award for Chemical Engineering Sciences, as well as starting the Laboratory of Food Process Engineering in Wageningen, and which he will still retain a connection to in a part time position. Read more about AI4NaturalFood here: https://lnkd.in/eimC_KMM Welcome to our Department, Remko. We're very excited to have you join us!