Knud Erik Bach Knudsen 

Knud Erik Bach Knudsen is professor in Basic Nutrition at Aarhus University, Department of Animal Science, Denmark. For more than 35 years, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen has been working with different aspects of carbohydrates and phytochemicals. Working areas have been development of analytical methods for the characterisation of carbohydrates in feeds, foods and digesta materials, analyses of carbohydrates in a wide variety of animal and human foods and studies on nutritional, physiological and health aspects of carbohydrates and phytochemicals in non-ruminant mammals.

After completing his Ph.D., Knud Erik Bach Knudsen worked at the Carlsberg Research Centre and The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen before joining the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences; from 2007 Aarhus University. He has been author and co-author of more than 281 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 114 contributions to proceedings and book chapters, mainly related to analytical, nutritional, physiological and health aspects of carbohydrates and phytochemicals.