Bram Pareyt obtained his Ph.D. in applied biological sciences from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2010,focusing on the functionality of wheat flour constituents,sugar,and fat in sugar-snap cookie making.He received the 2009 Isydore Hlynka Best Student Paper Award from the AACCI Rheology Division.He currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow of the FWO- Vlaanderen (Brussels,Belgium) at the Laboratory of Food chemistry and biochemistry at KU Leuven and there focuses on wheat lipids and puroindolines and their roles in cereal-base products.He (co-)authored more then 25 peer-reviewed publications and two book chapters.He was a chair of the organizing committee of the C&E Spring Meeting 2013 (Leuven,Belgium)and is Scientific Initiative "Chemistry and Interactions" vice-chair (2014) and chair (2015) of the AACCI Annual Meeting Program Planning Team. He is the 2014 AACCI Cecil F. Pinney Travel Grant awardee.Bram is a member of AACCI and can be reached at bram.pareyt@biw.kuleuven.be