Prof. Harold Corke is currently serving as a professor in Biotechnology and Food Engineering Program, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT).

Previously, he was included in Shanghai’s key talent program, and full-time Chair Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, from 2016-2020. He was previously Professor in Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, where he spent 24 years.

Prof. Corke is active in both basic and applied research in grain processing, genetics of grain quality, and chemistry of plant bioactives. He has published more than 330 international journal papers (with 37,932 citations, h-index = 95, Google Scholar, February 2024). Prof. Corke has graduated dozens of PhD students who have gone on to successful academic and industry careers around the world. He was editor of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Food Grains (2016) and is currently an editor of Journal of Cereal Science and LWT-Food Science and Technology.