Christian Butzke, PhD
Senior University Fellow for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Professor of Food Science & Enology, Department of Food Science
Phone: (765) 494-6500
E-mail: cbutzke@purdue.edu
College of Agriculture
Professor Butzke is an expert in the commercial production of fermented beverages, especially wine. He is co-founder and chief enologist of the Purdue-based start-up VinSense LLC, a software company that provides perennial crop management decision-support through real-time, high-resolution functional soil maps, modeling of soil and climate effects on fruit composition and quality, and powerful data analytics and visualization tools. He has served as the College's first Innovation & Entrepreneurship Fellow since 2021, and was appointed Purdue?s first Senior University Fellow for Innovation & Entrepreneurship in 2023.