**About the Editor**

**Dirk E. Maier** is a Professor and Postharvest Engineer in the departments of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering as well as Food Science & Human Nutrition at Iowa State University. He is responsible for leading an internationally recognized research and outreach program in postharvest engineering and technology applied to global food security and nutrition. He serves as the Director of the Consortium for Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction, which aims to achieve the sustained, scalable implementation of appropriate methods to preserve, process, package, and transport nutritious foods. His current graduate students are from the U.S., Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Ghana, and the Philippines.
