Wouter Saeys

Wouter Saeys is Full Professor at the KU Leuven Department of Biosystems in Belgium, where he leads the Biophotonics group with a focus on applications in the AgroFood chain. He received his Masters degree in Bioscience Engineering (2002) and a PhD in Bioscience Engineering (2006) from the KU Leuven. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the School for Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and at the Norwegian Food Research Institute – Matforsk (Ås, Norway). In general Wouter’s research deals with light transport modeling and optical characterization of biological materials, multivariate data analysis and digital agriculture. He is author of 200+ research articles (ISI).