The Editors Eric Dickinson has been a Professor of Food Colloids since 1992 and is the Author/coauthor of three books and over 400 research papers. he has previously been the Editor/coeditor of 11 previous books in field and is the Associate Editor of Food Hydrocolloids Martin Leser has been a Research Scientist and Project Leader at the NestlÚ Research Center since 1995. He is the author/coauthor of more than 60 research papers and book articles and the Coeditor of Section Food Colloids of Current Opinion in Colloids and Interface Science.