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Remko Boom, PhD (he/him/his)

Professor
Wageningen University and Research
Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands

Remko Boom (1965) obtained his PhD degree (highest honours) in Chemical Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in 1992. In 1993 he received the Royal Dutch Shell Study Tour Award for his PhD work. From 1992 to 1998 he worked for Unilever Research. In 1998, he was appointed full professor of Food Process Engineering at Wageningen University and since then leads the research group with that name. From 2011 to 2015 he was scientific director of the Graduate School / Programme VLAG (food technology, nutrition, molecular sciences and agro-biotechnology). He holds a visiting professorship at Tsukuba University in Japan since 2015 and an affiliated professorship at the University of Copenhagen since 2023.
His research interests revolve around the exploration of new principles to more sustainably produce healthier foods: new ways to isolate ingredients, new ways to structure foods, and thermodynamic assessment of complex production systems. His research group includes two other full professors, 6 assistant / associate professors, 6 technicians, and currently around 60 PhD students and postdocs (excluding BSc and MSc students). In the latest assessment by an international expert panel, his group was found to be excellent in all aspects (scientific quality, societal relevance and viability), and was characterised as globally leading in its fields.
He is chair of the Plant, Agriculture and Food standing committee of the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF), he is member of the Scientific Advisory board of DSM-Firmenich and of The Protein Brewery, is member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology (ISPT) and the national initiative on plant based foods ‘Fascinating’, has been member of the leadership team of the European Technology Platform Food for Life until 2022, participates in the Dutch top institutes on process technology and on food and nutrition (Next Food Collective). He (co-) published more than 440 peer-reviewed publications (Scopus), and has successfully graduated 75 PhD students to date.

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