Dr. Sakamon Devahastin is currently a professor in the Department of Food Engineering, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) in Bangkok, Thailand. His main research interests are in both thermal and non-thermal processing of foods and biomaterials, in particular the development and study of novel drying technologies for heat- and oxygen-sensitive materials, and also in material property and structural characterization as well as computational fluid dynamics and heat/mass transfer. He has so far published more than 220 papers in referred international journals and given some 110 presentations at various international conferences. He is an author/co-author of 17 book chapters, author/editor of 4 books and co-inventor of 4 patents. He has served as Editor of an archival journal Drying Technology and been on the editorial boards of various other journals in food and thermal engineering. Among the many awards bestowed upon him, Dr. Devahastin was awarded the Young Technologist Award by the Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of H.M. the King of Thailand in 2004; the TRF-CHE-Scopus® Researcher Award in Engineering and Multidisciplinary Category by the Thailand Research Fund (TRF), Commission on Higher Education (CHE) and Scopus® as well as the Taylor & Francis Award for Sustained Exemplary Service to Drying Technology and the Excellence in Drying Research Contributions by Taylor & Francis, both in 2009. He is the recipient of the 2012 National Outstanding Researcher Award (Engineering and Industrial Research Category) from the National Research Council of Thailand, the 2014 Award for Excellence in Drying from the Association Française pour le Séchage dans l’Industrie et l’Agriculture (French Drying Association for Industry and Agriculture), the 2018 Ajinomoto Award for Outstanding Food Science and Technology Researcher from the Ajinomoto Foundation and the Food Science and Technology Association of Thailand. Dr. Devahastin is the recipient of the 26th Thailand Toray Science & Technology Award, which was given by the Thailand Toray Science Foundation in 2019. He has been elected Associate Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Thailand since 2016. Dr. Devahastin received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 2001.