Erich Josef Windhab studied chemical engineering/process engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). From 1985 to 1992, on behalf of the state of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation, he headed the scientific development of an industrial research institute, the German Institute of Food Technology (DIL) in Quakenbrück/Osnabrück, of which he became Vice Director in 1987. He has been a full professor of food process engineering at the Institute of Food and Nutritional Sciences at ETH Zurich since April 1992. Research focuses on fluidic processes for the microstructuring of multiphase systems, particularly in the food sector. He combines interdisciplinary projects within ETH with the laboratories for Physical Electronics, Polymer Physics, Food Microbiology, Food Chemistry and Technology, Food Biotechnology and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).
