About us
VEG-i-TEC is a living lab for the potato and vegetable processing industry.
We help the food industry with implementing technological innovations related to potato and vegetable processing:
- water and energy management
- by-products
- food safety and food quality
- hygienic design
- economic, ecologic and social impact
Partners and support
This living lab has been made possible by the cooperation of several national and international partners in 3 pioneering European projects:
- EFRO project: construction of a research building
- EFRO GTI WVl project – living lab Food-Water
- INTERREG FWVl project – pilot infrastructure
Team
Team leaders

Staff
- Habtu Shumoy Abraha
- Michael Chys
- Jan De Smet
- Moustapha Drabo
- Maryam Imbumi
- Caian He
- Bashar Kabawa
- Pieter-Jan Loveniers
- Juliana Mandha
- Ellen Neyrinck
- Eda Nur Ayar
- Mulugeta Hailu Redae
- Akram Sayed
- Job Schloesser
- Ioanna Stamogiannou
- Ngoc Thao Ngan Trinh
- Kyriaki Tsirtsidou
- Tessa Tuytschaever
- Caroline Vandenbussche
- Ben Van den Wouwer
- Baptiste Vanleenhove
- Yannick Verheust
- Kiara Viaene
- Christophe Wille
- Jacob Willems
- Lin Xu
- Yang Zou