Gun WirtanenDr. Gun Wirtanen graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in
1988 and received her doctoral degree in 1996. She is an external lecturer in process
hygiene at the University of Helsinki from 2001 onwards. Gun Wirtanen is or has been<r>board member of the professional organisations such as the R3Nordic Association in
Contamination Control and Cleanroom Technology, the Society of Food Sciences (ETS ry;
in Finland), Food Hygiene Group & European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group
(EHEDG) Executive Committee. She has been Senior Research Scientist and Senior Expert
at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland from 1988 to 2013. She was Associate
Professor in Hygienic design and cleaning operations at Technical University of Denmark
(DTU), National Food Institute from November 2014 to April 2016. Gun Wirtanen
coordinated Finnish, Nordic and European projects, including SAFOODNET (EU) 2006-
2009; the Nordic projects "Sanitation of dairies", 1994-96, "Evaluation of cleaning agents
and disinfectants for use in dairies: methods and mechanisms" 1997-2000 and "DairyNet:
Hygiene Control in dairies" 2001-2004. Gun Wirtanen has been an external evaluator of
four international doctoral theses, opponent of one international doctoral thesis,
supervised three doctoral, twelve Master and six Bachelor theses. She has written more
than 350 publications (in English, Finnish and Scandinavian languages) as well as editing
proceedings for the annual R3Nordic symposia. Recent publication: Biofilm risks. In:
Handbook of Hygiene Control in the Food Industry, 2nd ed., Elsevier, 2016 (in press). Read More Read Less