Professor Da-Wen Sun is a world authority in food engineering research and education. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, the highest academic honour in Ireland, and is also a member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). 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. His many scholarly works have become standard reference materials for researchers in such areas as computer vision, computational fluid dynamics modelling and vacuum cooling.