Editor-in-Chief

Dr. 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.

Email: renyou.gan@polyu.edu.hk

Senior Consulting Boards

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.

Email: a.atanasov@igbzpan.pl

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.

Email: harold.corke@gtiit.edu.cn

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.

Email: yangqichang@caas.cn

Prof. Lindsay Brown

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

Research Interests: functional foods; obesity; hypertension; rat models.

Email: lindsay.brown@griffith.edu.au

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.

Email: nic_lindley@sifbi.a-star.edu.sg

Prof. Jianping Wu

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

Research Interests: food proteins; bioactive peptides.

Email: jwu3@ualberta.ca

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.

Email: lorenzo.pastrana@inl.int

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.

Email: akoutel@aegean.gr

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.

Email: A.Rashidinejad@massey.ac.nz

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.

Email: mutamed.ayyash@uaeu.ac.ae

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.

Email: kongkm@um.edu.my

Dr. Mohd Khalid Gul

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India.

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

Email: gulmk@nitrkl.ac.in

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.

Email: gh@scu.edu.cn

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.

Email: zhouchangyu@nbu.edu.cn

Dr. Srinivas Janaswamy

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

Research Interests: functional biopolymers.

Email: Srinivas.Janaswamy@sdstate.edu

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.

Email: amjadiqbal@awkum.edu.pk

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.

Email: wuxin@tib.cas.cn

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.

Email: shaldar@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dr. Linda Zhong

School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Research Interests: chinese medicine; clinical trial; gastrointestinal disease; autoimmune disease; women's health.

Email: linda.zhong@ntu.edu.sg

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.

Email: ykmohanta@gmail.com

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.

Email: jinwang_2020@seu.edu.cn

Youth Editorial Boards

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.

Email: debasish.rs.bce13@itbhu.ac.in

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.

Email: manalich2@gmail.com

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.

Email: tanggy11@hku.hk