Pablo Juliano: Group Leader

Dr Pablo Juliano is a supply chain transformation leader with strong background in innovation in sustainable food processing and food waste upcycling. He is a high energy networker across government and industry.

He currently leads the Food Processing and Supply Chains Group, which delivers science innovation to the food industry as part of CSIRO’s Food Program, particularly in meeting Australia’s gap in value addition to agricultural commodities. His research focuses on food systems and technological approaches to reduce and value capture on food losses and waste across the supply chain by upcycling into co-products using CSIRO platform technologies. Pablo is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Pablo has over 20 years of service to the food industry in seven countries. He sets direction for funding and creation of a science research programs with strategic environmental and regional development bottom lines through technology and supply chain innovation. He leads and provides oversight to multidisciplinary projects on emerging food processing technologies and redesign and optimisation of food supply chains. In particular, he led the creation and commercialisation of unprecedented technology for food waste recovery.

He is the CSIRO representative on the National Food Waste Strategy and implementation steering committees together with industry peak bodies, the federal and state governments and is working nationally with food clusters towards the implementation of regional processing hubs.

He contributes to Food System Horizons through his work developing new regional industries with a circular economy lens.   

Pablo obtained his PhD in Food Engineering at Washington State University in the USA and a Master of Business Administration at Deakin University in Australia. He was with Nestlé Uruguay in the role of Quality Assurance Manager and as Research Manager with a major dairy exporter in Uruguay.

He is currently the Vice President of the Australian Food Engineers Association and serves in committees in the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology and the Institute of Food Technologists.

Pablo enjoys travelling to culturally diverse places, scuba diving, plays water polo and speaks 4 languages. As part of his life journey, he hopes to continue making many contributions that leverage regional, national and global food security. 

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