Prof Da-Wen Sun MRIA received CIGR Fellow Award from Prof Søren Pedersen (left), CIGR President.
UCD Professor Da-Wen Sun has been elected incoming President of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) at the 51st CIGR General Assembly. He will become CIGR President in 2013-2014 - the term of the presidency is six years, two years each for serving as Incoming President, President, and Past President.
During the World Congress, Prof Da-Wen Sun also received the CIGR Fellow Award. The title of Fellow is the highest honour in CIGR, and is conferred to individuals who have made sustained, outstanding contributions world-wide, and that continue to improve the outcomes of the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering profession.
Prof Da-Wen Sun MRIA, UCD School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, is a world leading authority in food engineering research and education. He holds the chair of Food and Biosystems Engineering at University College Dublin. His many scholarly works have become standard reference materials for research workers in the areas of computer vision, computational fluid dynamics modelling and vacuum cooling.
Prof Sun has published well over 200 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact international journals and has edited ten books. He is editor-in-chief of the international journal Food and Bioprocess Technology published by Springer and editor of the book series Contemporary Food Engineering published by CRC Press / Taylor & Francis. According to Thomson Scientific's Essential Science Indicators (ESI) published in July 2009, Prof Sun is among the top one per cent of the most cited scientists worldwide in the category of Agriculture Sciences (ISI Web of Science). He has received numerous international prestigious awards and holds several major EU and national research grants.
CIGR (Commission Internationale du Genie Rural) was founded in 1930 in Liège, Belgium, as an international, non-governmental, non-profit organisation and as a networking system for regional and national societies of agricultural and biological engineering, as well as private and public companies.
