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Meet the winners

The 2023 Hygienic Study Award announces its four winners, selected by a distinguished jury of universities and research institutes representatives, as well as leading industrial companies. The recipients have been formally honored in a ceremony that took place today at the Interpack tradeshow in Düsseldorf. EHEDG, Fraunhofer IVV and VDMA are proud of the contributions that these young talents are making to the global scientific community and industry. Please join us in congratulating them on their achievements!

First place

Heni Dallagi (University of Lille): Numerical and experimental investigations of the rheological behavior of foam flow: application to the cleaning of surfaces contaminated by microorganisms in the food industries

Second place

Wolf Freiherr Marschall (TU Dresden): Identification of cleaning mechanism using machine learning methods

Third place

Elena Zand (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Vienna): Emerging concepts for monitoring and control of hygienic food production

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Alejandro Avila Sierra (University of Birmingham): DEVELOPMENT OF A NANOTECHNOLOGY INFORMED CLEAN-IN-PLACE STRATEGY: Effect of interfacial characteristics on milk fouling and cleaning mechanisms