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Editorial Board

Editorial Board

  • Editor-in-Chief

    • Prof.  Ren-You Gan

      Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.

      Research Interests:
      food functional ingredients; bioactivities; gut microbiota; food fermentation; biotransformation.
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  • Senior Consulting Board

    • Prof.  Atanas G. Atanasov

      Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland.

      Research Interests:
      molecular medicine; nutrigenomics; digital health; open innovation; biotechnology; natural products; science communication; molecular pharmacology.
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    • Prof.  Harold Corke

      Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), Shantou, China.

      Research Interests:
      food science; food safety; food security; food studies; world agriculture.
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    • Prof.  Qichang Yang

      Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, China.

      Research Interests:
      vertical agriculture technology; integrated water and fertilizer management; smart horticultural equipment; intelligent agricultural robotics; plant photobiology; plant environmental science.
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    • Prof.  Lindsay Brown

      Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

      Research Interests:
      functional foods; obesity; hypertension; rat models.
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    • Dr.  Nic Lindley

      Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.

      Research Interests:
      microbial biotechnology; fermentation; biotransformation; synthetic biology.
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    • Prof.  Jianping Wu

      Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

      Research Interests:
      food proteins; bioactive peptides.
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    • Prof.  Elke Arendt

      School of Food & Nutritional Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

      Research Interests:
      cereal science & malting and brewing; fermentation biotechnology; gluten-free diet; plant-based & alternative proteins foods and beverages; sustainable food systems; medical foods; food safety.
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    • Prof.  Eugene B. Chang

      Knapp Center for Biomedical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

      Research Interests:
      microbiome medicine; host-microbe interactions; microbiome; metabolism; complex immune disorders.
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  • Editorial Board Members

    • Prof.  Lorenzo Pastrana

      International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, 4715-330 Braga, Portugal.

      Research Interests:
      food structure with emphasis in 3D printing materials; encapsulation and gut-on-a-chip technologies for improving functional foods and food personalization; active and intelligent food packaging.
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    • Dr.  Antonios E. Koutelidakis

      Lab of Nutrition and Public Health, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean, 81400 Lemnos, Greece.

      Research Interests:
      nutrition and health; functional foods; bioactive compounds; bioactivity and bioavailability; phytochemicals and chronic diseases.
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    • Dr.  Ali Rashidinejad

      Riddet Institute Centre of Research Excellence, Massey University, 11222 Palmerston North, New Zealand.

      Research Interests:
      functional food; antioxidant activity; free radical scavengers; free radicals; reactive oxygen species; food chemistry; food analysis; flavonoids.
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    • Prof.  Mutamed Ayyash

      Department of Food, Nutrition and Health, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 15551, United Arab Emirates.

      Research Interests:
      probiotics; functional foods; biopolymers; and fermented products.
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    • Dr.  Kin Weng Kong

      Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

      Research Interests:
      functional foods; nutritional biochemistry; nutritional sciences; antioxidants.
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    • Dr.  Mohd Khalid Gul

      National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India.

      Research Interests:
      functional biopolymers for food and health; protein-polysaccharide interactions; encapsulation.
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    • Prof.  Hong Gao

      Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Light Industry, Textile and Food Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

      Research Interests:
      food biochemistry; functional food; food microbiology; natural product chemistry.
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    • Dr.  Changyu Zhou

      College of Food Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.

      Research Interests:
      the processing of fermented meat products; flavor chemistry; functional hydrogels.
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    • Dr.  Srinivas Janaswamy

      Department of Dairy and Food Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA.

      Research Interests:
      functional biopolymers.
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    • Prof.  Amjad Iqbal

      Department of Food Science and Technology, Garden Campus, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan.

      Research Interests:
      product development; bioactive compounds; method development and food allergens.
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    • Prof.  Xin Wu

      Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China.

      Research Interests:
      synthetic biology; microbial protein; functional nutrition; biological synthesis; nutritional metabolism.
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    • Dr.  Sumanto Haldar

      Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom.

      Research Interests:
      nutrition and chronic disease prevention; dietary intervention studies; biomarkers of chronic disease prevention.
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    • Dr.  Linda Zhong

      School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

      Research Interests:
      chinese medicine; clinical trial; gastrointestinal disease; autoimmune disease; women's health.
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    • Dr.  Yugal Kishore Mohanta

      Department of Applied Biology, University of Science and Technology Meghalaya(USTM), Baridua, Meghalaya, India.

      Research Interests:
      nano biotechnology; food & nutraceuticals; underutilized edible plants/fungus.
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    • Prof.  Jin Wang

      Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

      Research Interests:
      food safety and nutrition; food allergy and immunology; gut microbiota; food detection; food microbiology; public health.
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    • Dr.  William Cho

      Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

      Research Interests:
      cancer biomarker; microRNA; ncRNA; NGS; proteomics; lung cancer; NPC; Chinese medicine.
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    • Prof.  Luigi Lucini

      Department for Sustainable Food Process, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.

      Research Interests:
      food metabolomics; polyphenols; antioxidants; food authenticity; food processing.
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    • Dr.  Yuyun Lu

      Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore.

      Research Interests:
      tropical fruit wines and beverage fermentation; valorisation of food processing side streams; biotechnological processing of fruits and vegetables; dietary bioactive compounds (e.g., phenolics and organosulfur compounds) for human health; foodomics analysis.
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    • Prof.  Narpinder Singh

      Department of Food Science and Technology, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India.

      Research Interests:
      cereal and pulse chemistry; starch structure–function; protein functionality; food processing and extrusion; modified starches; metabolomics; functional and gluten-free foods; plant-based meat analogued protein chemistry, functional ingredients.
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    • Dr.  Blanca Hernández Ledesma

      Group of Development and Innovation in Alternative Proteins (INNOVAPROT). Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

      Research Interests:
      alternative food sources; health benefits; microalgae; non conventional vegetables; bioactive peptides; proteomics; antioxidant; anti-inflammatory; antiobesity; antidiabetic.
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    • Prof.  Zheng Ruan

      Institute of Nutritional Sciences, School of Food Science Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.

      Research Interests:
      functional foods; molecular nutrition; quantitative nutrition and chronic digestive disease intervention.
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    • Prof.  Doha A. Mohamed

      Food Industry and Nutrition Research Institute, National Research Centre (NRC), Cairo, Egypt.

      Research Interests:
      nutritional biochemistry; functional foods; nutraceuticals and dietary supplements; phytochemical analysis; gut microbiome; food bioactive compounds; and diet-related prevention of chronic diseases.
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    • Dr.  Asli Can Karaca

      Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

      Research Interests:
      food chemistry; legumes; plant proteins; protein functionality.
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    • Prof.  Liang Zhang

      Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.

      Research Interests:
      tea chemistry and health; flavor analysis; metabolomics.
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    • Prof.  Robert B. Beelman

      Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health, Department of Food Science, University Park, PA, USA.

      Research Interests:

      nutritional and medicinal properties of mushrooms; antioxidants: selenium, ergothioneine and glutathione; Vitamin D enrichment of mushrooms; regenerative agriculture effects on nutrient density of food.

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  • Youth Editorial Board

    • Dr.  Debashis Dutta

      Department of Food Processing Technology, Mirmadan Mohanlal Government Polytechnic, Plassey, West Bengal, India.

      Research Interests:
      bioprocess design & fermentation technology; microbial growth modeling & kinetic studies; non-thermal processing of functional foods; food microbiology & safety; synthetic biology & metabolic engineering; bioactive compounds & functional foods; sustainability through green bioprocessing & biocatalysis and enzyme engineering.
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    • Dr.  Manali Chakraborty

      Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

      Research Interests:
      life cycle analysis; sustainable horticulture; healthy diet as an alternative to medicine.
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    • Dr.  Guoyi Tang

      School of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

      Research Interests:
      food and medicine homology; natural product; functional food; nutritional therapy; medicinal diet; herbal tea; Chinese medicine; kidney disease; diabetes; obesity.
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    • Dr.  Guoqiang Zhang

      School of Science, Coventry University, Coventry, UK.

      Research Interests:
      bakery products; functional foods; food by-product valorisation; food processing technologies; sustainable food system; novel food ingredients; bioactive compounds.
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    • Dr.  Owais Yousuf

      Department of Food Technology, Islamic University of Science & Technology Awantipora, J&K, India.

      Research Interests:
      agro-industrial waste valorization; food processing; product design and development.
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    • Dr.  Sumran Ali

      • 1. School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China.
      • 2. University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, New Zealand.
      Research Interests:
      food and healthcare innovation; food security; sustainable development; public health systems; digital transformation, and the application of artificial intelligence in food systems and health policy analysis.
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    • Dr.  Reza Karimi

      Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.

      Research Interests:
      probiotics; prebiotics; postbiotics; dietary fibers; functional foods; bioactive compounds.
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    • Dr.  Taiwo A. Aderinola

      The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.

      Research Interests:
      extraction; characterisation, and application of bioactive compounds; particularly proteins; peptides, and polyphenols from underutilised plant resources.
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    • Dr.  Berrak Delikanlı Kıyak

      Department of Food Technology, Iznik Vocational School, Bursa Uludağ University, Bursa, Türkiye.

      Research Interests:
      dairy science and technology; food microbiology; fermented foods; functional foods; food biotechnology; food safety and quality; probiotics and gut microbiota; metagenomics and microbial ecology of foods; texture.
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    • Dr.  Huan Guo

      West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

      Research Interests:
      food functional ingredients; gut microbiota; food fermentation.
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    • Dr.  Taha Mehany

      Department of Chemistry, University of La Rioja, Spain.

      Research Interests:
      food science and technology; functional and plant-based foods; nutrition; natural antioxidants and bioactive compounds; analytical and food chemistry; food quality and safety; and food engineering.
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    • Dr.  Faizan Ahmad

      Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

      Research Interests:
      food engineering and technology; food processing and preservation; sustainable food packaging; postharvest technology; agri-food waste valorisation; circular bioeconomy; functional foods; bioactive compound recovery; sustainable food systems; green processing technologies.
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