Ariette Matser is expertise leader Food Processing Technology at Wageningen Food & Biobased Research. She studied Food Science at Wageningen University. Her main research focus is on improving sustainability and health in food processing, together with partners that span the entire chain from ingredients towards food products. This includes mild preservation & processing, resource efficient processing, protein structuring and focusses on understanding ingredient-process-product interactions. Research topics include technologies for sustainable processing and plant-based foods, from ingredients towards consumer products, and including technologies for ingredient production, structuring and preservation.