Current Academic Appointments
Monday, 26 February, 2018
- Full Professor of Food and Biosystems Engineering (Personal Chair), National University of Ireland - Dublin (University College Dublin)
- Director, Food Refrigeration & Computerised Food Technology (FRCFT), National University of Ireland - Dublin
- Founding President of International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (iAABE)
- Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Food and Bioprocess Technology
- Honorary President of International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR)
- Series Editor of Contemporary Food Engineering book series (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Food Process Engineering (Blackwell, SCI Source Journal)
- Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization (Springer)
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Ocean University of China (SCI Source Journal)
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Polish Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Recent Patents on Food, Nutrition & Agriculture (Bentham Science)
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of The Open Agriculture Journal (Bentham Science)
- Vice Chairman, Editorial Board of International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Honorary Vice-President of CIGR
- Honorary Chair of CIGR Section VI (Postharvest Technology and Process Engineering)
- Europe and Africa Regional Director of Association of Overseas Chinese Agricultural, Biological and Food Engineers (AOCABFE)
- Symposium Chairman of "CIGR Section VI International Symposium" series: 1st - Oct 2004, Beijing, China; 2nd - April 2006, Warsaw, Poland; 3rd - Sept 2007, Naples, Italy; 4th - Aug/Sept 2008, Iguassu Falls City, Brazil; 5th - Aug/Sept 2009, Potsdam, Germany; 6th – April 2011, Nantes, France; 7th – November 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa; 8th – November 2013, Guangzhou, China; 9th – November 2015, Auckland, New Zealand
- Visiting Professor of Zhejiang University, China
- Visiting Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- Visiting Professor of China Agricultural University, China
- Editor of Journal of Food Engineering (Elsevier, SCI Source Journal), 2005-2007
- Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Food Engineering (Elsevier, SCI Source Journal), 2007-2012
- Member, Editorial Board of Czech Journal of Food Sciences (SCI Source Journal), 2005-2011
- President of CIGR, 2013-2014
- Member of CIGR Presidium, 2011-2016
- Member of CIGR Executive Board, 2006-2016
- Chair of CIGR Section VI (Postharvest Technology and Process Engineering), 2002-2006