dr. L (Lu) Zhang

dr. L (Lu) Zhang

Assistant Professor

Dr. Lu Zhang is assistant professor on additive food assembly. Her research interests include complex food systems, 3D food printing and material science. She and her team conduct research to advance the food printing technology for the personalization of healthy and tasty foods, by developing machine-learning predictive models to describe behaviours of complex food systems during printing and designing control stratergies to adapt the printer to changes in food materials' properties. Lu received her PhD degree at Wageningen University in 2018. She invesigated bioactive ingredients during mini-bread baking. She studied chemical engineering for her BSc and MSc degrees at Xiamen University in China.