Author: Peter J. Lillford

DAVID S. REID, Ph.D., is a professor and chemist in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis, and is President of the Central Committee of the International Symposium on the Properties of Water (ISOPOW), a non-profit scientific organization whose activities aim at progressing the understanding of the properties of water in food and related biological systems, and the exploitation of this understanding in improved raw materials, products and processes in the food and related industries. TANABOON SAJJAANANTAKUL, Ph.D., is a food chemist and Head of the Department of Food Science and Technology at Kasetsart University, Thailand, and is Chair of the ISOPOW Local Organizing Committee for ISOPOW 10 in Bangkok, Thailand. PETER LILLFORD, Ph.D., is a physical chemist, formally in industry, but now working with the Universities of Birmingham and York in the UK, and as a Consultant to the Food Futures Flagship in CSIRO, Australia. He is a former President of ISOPOW, and a member of the Central Committee. SANGUANSRI CHAROENREIN, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the Department of Food Science and Technology at Kasetsart University, Thailand, and is a member of the ISOPOW Local Organizing Committee for ISOPOW 10. She has over ten years experience in the food, beverage and sugar industries.