Food Core Group member and Structure of Food Raw Materials Leader, LINXS Fellow

Francisco Vilaplana is Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Glycoscience and Coordinator of the Research Environment for Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). His research is focused on the structure of plant biomass, including food raw materials, biopolymers and assemblies. He uses this structural information to develop new chemo-enzymatic processes for the valorisation of food waste streams into new food products for improved nutrition and health.