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Zoltan Kovacs currently works as an associate professor at the Department of Measurements and Process Control and serves as an advisor of international affairs at the Institute of Food Science and Technology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life (formerly called Szent Istvan University, before Corvinus University of Budapest). He received his Ph.D. diploma in Food Science at Corvinus University of Budapest in 2012 and completed his habilitation in the field of Food Science in 2018 at Szent Istvan University. His original scope of research is the application and development of machine sensing systems, with a major focus on the electronic tongue, its related measurement protocol and data evaluation techniques. He spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at Kobe University, Japan between 2013 and 2016 working in the field of aquaphotomics. Since he returned to Hungary after his postdoctoral period, he has been also working with the near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and aquaphotomics besides his original field of research. He has been working with these novel measurement techniques primarily in the field of food science to detect food fraud and measure food quality. Currently, Dr. Kovacs collaborates and leads different national and international research projects and he also functions as the European liaison for the international aquaphotomics society.