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Thijs Defraeye publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thijs Defraeye sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 178 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Thijs Defraeye D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thijs Defraeye sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thijs Defraeye is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Plant Science, Food Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Physiology, and Pharmaceutical Science.

The core topics in Defraeye's work address:

  • Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
  • Food Supply Chain Traceability
  • Food Drying and Modeling
  • Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation
  • Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
  • Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments

Defraeye has published research in a range of venues, often appearing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Postharvest Biology and Technology
  • Food and Bioproducts Processing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent papers by Defraeye include:

  • Digital twins are coming: Will we need them in supply chains of fresh horticultural produce? (2021, Trends in Food Science & Technology)
  • Digital twins of food process operations: the next step for food process models? (2020, Current Opinion in Food Science)
  • Mapping the postharvest life of imported fruits from packhouse to retail stores using physics-based digital twins (2021, Resources Conservation and Recycling)
  • Facilitated machine learning for image-based fruit quality assessment (2022, Journal of Food Engineering)
  • Comparison of freezing and convective dehydrofreezing of vegetables for reducing cell damage (2020, Journal of Food Engineering)

Frequent coauthors working with Defraeye include:

  • Daniel Onwude
  • Kanaha Shoji
  • Seraina Schudel
  • René M. Rossi
  • Chandrima Shrivastava

Best Publications

  • Advanced computational modelling for drying processes – A review

    Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye

  • Nondestructive Measurement of Fruit and Vegetable Quality

    Bart M. Nicolaï;Thijs Defraeye;Bart De Ketelaere;Els Herremans

  • Aerodynamic study of different cyclist positions: CFD analysis and full-scale wind-tunnel tests

    Twj Thijs Defraeye;Bje Bert Blocken;E Koninckx;P Hespel

  • Multiscale modeling in food engineering

    Quang T. Ho;Jan Carmeliet;Ashim K. Datta;Thijs Defraeye

  • Towards integrated performance evaluation of future packaging for fresh produce in the cold chain

    Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Paul Cronjé;Tarl Berry;Umezuruike Linus Opara

  • Parametric study of the influence of environmental factors and tree properties on the transpirative cooling effect of trees

    Lento Manickathan;Lento Manickathan;Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Jonas Allegrini;Jonas Allegrini;Dominique Derome

  • Digital twins probe into food cooling and biochemical quality changes for reducing losses in refrigerated supply chains

    Thijs Defraeye;Giorgia Tagliavini;Giorgia Tagliavini;Wentao Wu;Wentao Wu;Wentao Wu;Kevin Prawiranto;Kevin Prawiranto

  • Digital twins are coming: Will we need them in supply chains of fresh horticultural produce?

    Thijs Defraeye;Chandrima Shrivastava;Chandrima Shrivastava;Tarl Berry;Pieter Verboven

  • The use of CFD to characterize and design post-harvest storage facilities: Past, present and future

    A. Ambaw;M. A. Delele;T. Defraeye;Q. T. Ho

  • Digital twins of food process operations: the next step for food process models?

    Pieter Verboven;Thijs Defraeye;Ashim K Datta;Bart Nicolai

  • Comparison of X-ray CT and MRI of watercore disorder of different apple cultivars

    Els Herremans;Angela Melado-Herreros;Thijs Defraeye;Bert Verlinden

  • Forced-convective cooling of citrus fruit: package design

    Thijs Defraeye;Rutger Lambrecht;Alemayehu Ambaw Tsige;Mulugeta Admasu Delele

  • Forced-convective cooling of citrus fruit: Cooling conditions and energy consumption in relation to package design

    Thijs Defraeye;Rutger Lambrecht;Mulugeta Admasu Delele;Alemayehu Ambaw Tsige

  • Computational fluid dynamics analysis of cyclist aerodynamics : performance of different turbulence-modelling and boundary-layer modelling approaches

    Twj Thijs Defraeye;Bje Bert Blocken;E Koninckx;P Hespel

  • Integral performance evaluation of the fresh-produce cold chain: A case study for ambient loading of citrus in refrigerated containers

    Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Bart Nicolai;Wayne Kirkman;Sean Moore

  • The role of horticultural carton vent hole design on cooling efficiency and compression strength: A multi-parameter approach

    Tarl M. Berry;T.S. Fadiji;Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Umezuruike Linus Opara

  • CFD modelling of flow and scalar exchange of spherical food products: Turbulence and boundary-layer modelling

    Thijs Defraeye;Pieter Verboven;Bart Nicolai

  • Application of MRI for tissue characterisation of ‘Braeburn’ apple

    Thijs Defraeye;Volker Lehmann;Dieter Gross;Carolin Holat

  • Computational fluid dynamics analysis of drag and convective heat transfer of individual body segments for different cyclist positions

    Twj Thijs Defraeye;Bje Bert Blocken;E Koninckx;P Hespel

  • Review: Convective heat and mass exchange predictions at leaf surfaces: Applications, methods and perspectives

    Thijs Defraeye;Pieter Verboven;Quang Tri Ho;Bart Nicolai

  • Feasibility of ambient loading of citrus fruit into refrigerated containers for cooling during marine transport

    Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Thijs Defraeye;Pieter Verboven;Umezuruike Linus Opara;Bart Nicolai

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Carmeliet
Jan Carmeliet ETH Zurich
Bart Nicolai
Bart Nicolai KU Leuven
Umezuruike Linus Opara
Umezuruike Linus Opara Stellenbosch University
Ashim K. Datta
Ashim K. Datta Cornell University
Herman Ramon
Herman Ramon KU Leuven
Manfred N. Partl
Manfred N. Partl Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Tess Astatkie
Tess Astatkie Dalhousie University

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