Daan Gielens is a PhD student at the Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry (LFCB) at KU Leuven. During his master’s in biotechnology and biochemistry, he performed an internship at Gitec, the research centre of AB InBev in Leuven. Here, his passion for the malting and brewing process started to grow, which eventually led to him pursuing a PhD in collaboration with AB InBev. In his PhD, Daan studies the impact of barley and malt starch properties on the conversion of starch during the mashing process, with the aim of contributing to improved or sustained resource efficiency in the brew house.
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KU Leuven, Bioscience engineering, Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Leuven Food Science and Nutrition Research Centre (LFoRCe)
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