Dr. Julia Kigozi, is trained as an Agricultural Engineer, specializing in Food Process Engineering. Julia attained a BSc. Agricultural Engineering from Makerere University, M(Eng) in Agricultural Engineering from University of Pretoria, and a PhD from Maker- ere University. She is a lecturer at Makerere University where she has been since 1997. She is involved in training and supervision of both undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and has authored 31 Journal papers. She specifically focusses on Post handling of crops, design and optimization of Food engineering operations, design of food processing equip- ment and plant Design. Julia also works with Agro-processors to facilitate their growth in production of safe products; specifically, in setting up hygienic infrastructure and optimizing their processing chain to meet national and international certification standards. She is the proprietor of Jazi Agro-processing Solutions Limited, a private company.