Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Mathys, a food technologist, received a doctoral degree in food processing in 2008. Since 2016, he has been Professor (Tenured in 2022) in Sustainable Food Processing at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he is focusing on more efficiency and sustainability of value chains in food and feed. Dr. Mathys works as Principial Investigator at the Singapore-ETH Centre and Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein at the National University of Singapore NUS. He is the author of more than 200 publications (140 peer review articles, 13 patent applications, 9 book chapters, 1 book, >40 conference papers) and he has attended more than 150 international conferences. Dr. Mathys is President of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) National Committee of the International Union of Food Science and Technology IUFoST (2021-2025), Representative for Germany and Switzerland at the International Association for Engineering and Food (IAEF), and serves as Governing Council Member (2020-2025) at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya. He is selected International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST) Fellow since 2024, ETH Zurich Dandelion Entrepreneurship Special Award Winner 2022, IFT International Food Security Award Winner 2020; Young Researcher of the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates 2010; Einstein Young Scholar 2010; and A.T. Kearney Scholar 2011/2012 at the Falling Walls conferences.