Seamus Higgins
Food Engineer/ Professor Food Engineering / Author
Seamus has worked and consulted for over 30 years in engineering and management roles at several leading international food companies, including Nestle and Premier Foods.
He joined the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham in 2017 as course director and associate professor to develop a new MSc programme in food process engineering. His book, Food and Us, The Incredible Story of How Food Shapes Humanity, was published this year by the Royal Society of Chemistry for a general readership.
Seamus is an Associate Fellow of IChemE and of the Food Systems Institute’s Centre for Food Policy and Foresight. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority in the UK and an editorial board member of the Journal for Food Process Engineering.
