Seamus Higgins
Associate Professor Food Process Engineering
University of Nottingham
Seamus began his career in the food industry as an electrical engineer and has worked with several leading international food companies, including Nestle and Premier Foods. Having completed an MBA programme in project management in the mid-nineties, he has since worked in several lead project and senior management roles, including factory development, food process engineering and new product development. He has also performed and consulted for several leading global food and UK companies, entrepreneur development, and new company start-ups.
Seamus is an associate fellow of
IChemE and a fellow of the Higher Education Authority UK. He is also an
editorial board member of the International Journal for Food Process
Engineering.
He joined the school of Chemical &
Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham, in 2017 as course director
to develop a new MSc programme in food process engineering. His position as an associate professor for
Food Process Engineering at the University of Nottingham allows him to combine several
years of food industry experience with departmental expertise in Chemical and
Environmental sustainability endeavours. He combines his passion for a more
sustainable world and novel food manufacturing techniques with a new generation
of process engineers, the University of Nottingham and supporting institutions.
seamus.higgins@nottingham.ac.uk