Knowledge Based Bio-Economy towards 2020

Mr. VOLKER HEINZ

Director - German Institute of Food Technologies

Biography

Volker Heinz is director & CEO of the German Institute of Food Technologies (DIL), a non-profit research centre based in northern Germany with 130 members of staff and an annual turnover of 10 mio. €. Founded in 1985 the DIL is specialized in food process engineering, microbiology and food chemistry.

Until 2005 Heinz was principal scientist and lecturer at TU Berlin´s Food Engineering Department where he is still in the teaching programme. He has a record of more than 100 scientific publications and invited lectures.

Fields of research are: food structure related high pressure processing, pulsed electric fields and ultrasound applications. Since 2009 he is coordinator of the EU FP7 Network of Excellence “HighTech Europe”.

Programme

Panel member, Part III Working together to address the needs - Session 3: Innovative Food Production