Dr. Marco Ramaioli obtained a master in chemical engineering summa cum laude from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, with a dissertation on chromatographic reactors under the supervision of Prof. M. Morbidelli. During more than eight years, he gained experience as Process Modelling Specialist and Project Manager at Nestlé PTC Orbe, Switzerland, contributing to the development of several novel food processes and to their factory implementation. In January 2008, he obtained a Science doctorate from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne with a thesis on granular media flow simulations, under the supervision of Prof. T. M. Liebling. From 2008 to 2014, Dr. Ramaioli held a Project Manager and Senior Research Scientist position at Nestlé Research Center, Switzerland. He contributed to the development of new food products, till their market launch and to advancing the scientific understanding of wetting and dissolution, powder-liquid flows and human swallowing. Since 2013, he lectures at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and he contributes to the EdX Massive Online Open Course "Mécanique des fluides". Dr. Ramaioli was appointed Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Surrey, UK in 2014 and led the research theme Health and Food. Since May 2019 he is Senior Research Scientist at INRA, France and Visiting Reader at University of Surrey.