The Department of Food Informatics operates interdisciplinary at the interface of food science, biotechnology, and computer science. The research focuses on the digitalization of food production in a holistic approach that also includes the food supply chain, traders/distributors, and consumers. In cooperation with partners from industry and research, we transfer and optimize approaches, methods, and technology from the fields of artificial intelligence, predictive data analysis, Industry 4.0, adaptive software systems, and the Internet of Things to the domain of food processing.

Our Department is associated to the Computational Science Hub of the University of Hohenheim and it is part of the Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology.