Prof. dr. ir. Koen Dewettinck is senior full professor, and since 1999 head of the Food Structure & Function Research Group of Ghent University (Belgium). He leads a research group of about 30 people that is focusing on food design on a mesoscopic scale. The main product groups of interest are dairy products, margarines and shortenings, and chocolate and confectionary products. Koen Dewettinck is the founder of UGent spin-off Cacaolab, an infrastructure fully dedicated to innovation and training from bean to praline.