Professor Fariba Dehghani leads a multidisciplinary bioengineering research team comprising focused on developing technologies for nutritional food products and biomaterials, with particular emphasis on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. She was the director of the Australian Research Council for Australian Food Processing Industry in the 21st Century from 2014 – 2018, and is currently the director of Centre of Excellence in Advanced Food Enginomics in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney. Professor Dehghani is a distinguished researcher and was recognised by Engineers Australia as one of the nation’s top 50 Engineers for innovation. She subsequently received the 2017 Award for Excellence from Aust&NZ Federation of Chemical Engineering.Following this in 2019, she has received the UNSW Alumni Award of Excellence in Engineering and the University of Sydney Vice Chancellor Award of Excellence in Supervision. She has been instrumental in building a multidisciplinary research environment that stimulates the interface and intersect of engineering, science, medicine, pharmacy and agriculture. She has established long-term collaborations within the biotech, biomed and food industries and acquired substantive funding from national and international funding agencies.