Michael Wagner has joined BI Nutraceuticals, Long Beach, CA, as a food science engineer. He will assist in providing solutions for complex functional food formulation challenges faced by BI’s customer base and will help support the company’s continued expansion in the food and beverage industry.

Wagner comes to BI with a doctorate from the department of food science at Cornell University. His research focused on the application of supercritical carbon dioxide in food systems, including extraction, encapsulation, enzyme inactivation and extrusion. He has authored several published studies and has one patent application.