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.

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.

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.

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.

Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
Research Interests: functional foods; obesity; hypertension; rat models.

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.

Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Research Interests: food proteins; bioactive peptides.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Research Interests: functional foods; nutritional biochemistry; nutritional sciences; antioxidants.

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India.
Research Interests: functional biopolymers for food and health; protein-polysaccharide interactions; encapsulation.

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.

College of Food Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Research Interests: the processing of fermented meat products; flavor chemistry; functional hydrogels.

Department of Dairy and Food Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA.
Research Interests: functional biopolymers.

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.

Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China.
Research Interests: synthetic biology; microbial protein; functional nutrition; biological synthesis; nutritional metabolism.

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.

School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Research Interests: chinese medicine; clinical trial; gastrointestinal disease; autoimmune disease; women's health.

Department of Applied Biology, University of Science and Technology Meghalaya(USTM), Baridua, Meghalaya, India.
Research Interests: nano biotechnology; food & nutraceuticals; underutilized edible plants/fungus.

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.

Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Research Interests: cancer biomarker; microRNA; ncRNA; NGS; proteomics; lung cancer; NPC; Chinese medicine.

Department for Sustainable Food Process, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Research Interests: food metabolomics; polyphenols; antioxidants; food authenticity; food processing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Research Interests: food chemistry; legumes; plant proteins; protein functionality.

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.

Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Research Interests: life cycle analysis; sustainable horticulture; healthy diet as an alternative to medicine.

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.

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.
