Neil Jaworski grew up in La Grange, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He developed an interest in animals and agriculture through visits to the Brookfield Zoo and his grandparents' grain farm in Chenoa, Illinois.

Neil majored in animal sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he met Dr. Stein and developed a passion for understanding the use of different feed ingredients in swine diets. He continued his graduate studies at U of I with Dr. Stein, completing his Master's degree in December 2012 and Ph. D. in 2016. His research involved experiments investigating energy metabolism, enzymes, direct-fed microbials, digestion/fermentation adaptation time, and degradation of fiber fractions along the gastrointestinal tract of the pig.

Upon graduation, Dr. Jaworski moved to the Netherlands and began working as a researcher at Trouw Nutrition. Currently, his position is Global Nutritionist Database & Matrix where he works with a team to develop the Global Trouw Nutrition Database and ingredient Matrix and is the gatekeeper for nutritional concepts in mixed products, from premixes to feed.