The Third European Workshop on Food Engineering and Technology
The Third European workshop on Food Engineering and Technology was held in the Royal Palace of Portici at the University of Naples, May 21 - 22, 2009. It was organised jointly by the Section on Food of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) in cooperation with the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST) and the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Naples, Federico II.
The event brought together selected PhD students from across Europe who presented their work in a 2-day workshop. The first European workshop on Food Engineering and Technology was held in Berlin in May 2007, and the second was held a year later in May 2008 at Massy, Paris.
THE WINNERS AND THE JURY: (from left to right) Prof. Marc Hendrix (Belgium), Prof. Gilles Trystram (France), Prof. Brian McKenna (Ireland), Prof. Laura Piazza (Italy), Prof. Hilmar Schubert (Germany), Prof. Dietrich Knorr (Germany), Dan Goldman (first award winner, Israel), Giancarlo Addario (Italy), Markus Hartmann (PTC Singen), Prof. Paolo Masi (Italy), Robert Engel (third award winner, Germany), Kristel de Vleeschouwer (second award winner, Belgium), Prof. Victor Nedovic (Serbia).
The Julius Maggi Research Award, sponsored by Nestlé’s Product Technology Centre in Singen, is a prize of 2,500 Euros. The winner and runner-up are also invited to spend a week at the Nestlé Research Center in Switzerland. The award is given to the PhD student whose work is considered by a panel of judges to be of practical importance to the food industry, as well as being of a high quality, and presented in a clear and convincing way.
This Year’s Winner
Dan Goldman, from the Department of Biotechnology & Food Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa won this year’s award for his work on "An enzymatic process for producing fruit juice with reduced calorie content and prebiotic fibres". Dan’s research led to finding a new way that the calorie content of natural fruit juices can be reduced, and which can also help to enhance its nutritional value.
The judges were a panel of 10 experts on food technology and food engineering from across Europe, as well as Markus Hartmann, a Food Technology expert from Nestlé’s Product Technology Centre in Singen, Germany, who also presented the award.
“The Third European Workshop on Food Engineering and Technology in Massy was already a high level event. The 2009 workshop in Portici showed an even higher level. During the two days the audience was given a good overview of the current status of food engineering and technology. This event also serves as an opportunity to fill Nestlé's future recruitment needs. The award winner Dan Goldman showed in a brilliant way how it is possible to bring basic science to a concrete product.” Markus Hartmann, PTC Singen, Nestec Ltd.
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