ABSTRACT
Born in Southern China, Professor Da-Wen Sun is a world authority in food engineering research and education; he is a member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), which is the highest academic honor in Ireland; he is also a member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) and a fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology. His main research activities include cooling, drying, and refrigeration processes and systems, quality and safety of food products, bioprocess simulation and optimization, and computer vision technology. Especially, his many
scholarly works have become standard reference materials for researchers in the areas of computer vision, computational uid dynamics modeling, vacuum cooling, and so on. Results of his work have been published in over 700 papers including more than 350 peer-reviewed journal papers (Web of Science h-index = 53; Google Scholar h-index = 66). He has also edited 13 authoritative books. According to Thomson Scientic’s Essential Science IndicatorsSM, based on data derived over a period of 10 years from the ISI Web of Science, there are about 2500 scientists who are among the top 1% of the most cited scientists in the category of agriculture sciences. For many years, Professor Sun has consistently been ranked among the very top 50 scientists in the world (he was at 31st position in 2010).
