THE BREWERS FORUM

As a biochemical industrial engineer (KAHO St.-Lieven, Ghent, Belgium) and food chemist (Wageningen University, The Netherlands), Jessika De Clippeleer started her career in malting and brewing in 2005. Jessika holds a PhD in Bioscience Engineering from KU Leuven on flavour stability of pale lager beer. Currently, Jessika is Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. She heads the Innovation centre for Brewing & Fermentation (IBF), the joint research group of Ghent University and the HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where she is involved in education, research, and industrial and academic services. Jessika complements the ongoing malting and brewing research in the segments of alternative raw materials and yeasts, process optimization, and beer flavour quality and stability. She aims to further modernize malting and brewing with innovations in beer and alternative fermented beverages.