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Sustainable Food Connect

Editorial Board

Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics
Hashemite University
Zarqa
Jordan

Biography:
Amin Olaimat is a professor of food microbiology and safety at Hashemite University, Jordan. Olaimat published more than 115 peer-reviewed papers in the most renowned international journals of food science and he has been featured among Stanford University’s top 2% of the most globally influential scientists list.

Interests:
Inhibition of spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms in food, development of active, intelligent food packaging systems, development of functional food products, conducting public health surveillances and epidemiological investigations.

Abdelmoneim Ali

Associate Editor

Affiliation:
United Arab Emirates University
Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Interests:
food science, dairy technology, nutrition, infant formula, lipidomic, non-thermal food processing, docosahexaenoic acid, brain function
Mahmoud Abu-Ghoush

Associate Editor

Affiliation:
Director, Nutrition and Dietetics Program
Al Ain University
Al Ain, UAE

Interests:
Food production and processing, Product development, Food safety


Mahmood Ahmed

Regional Editor

Affiliation:
University of Education
Lahore
Pakistan

Region:
Asia

Interests:
Food preservation, Food toxicology, Food Analysis, Food Contamination
Jerry Zeyu Gao

Section Editor

Affiliation:
San Jose State University
San Jose
United States

Section Title:
machine learning and AI for food sustainability

Interests:
AI for food sustainability, green energy
Abe Shegro Gerrano

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Council
Industrial and Medicinal Plants
Pretoria
South Africa

Interests:
plant breeding (conventional and molecular breeding and genomic selections), genetics and abiotic and biotic stresses, and genetic diversity in crop
Abhishek Walia

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology
CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University
Palampur
India

Interests:
Evaluating plant growth promoting rhizobacteria as biofertilizer and biocontrol agents and the role of PGPR in stress-tolerance mechanisms for sustainable plant health, use of waste biomass for green energy and production of enzymes of industrial importance.
Ajar Nath Yadav

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Eternal University
Baru sahib
India

Interests:
applied microbiology, biofertilizer, functional food, microbial biotechnology, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, probiotic, rhizosphere,  secondary metabolite; soil microbiology, soil pollution,  solubilization,  wastewater treatment, plant microbe-interaction, antimicrobial resistance, host-microbe interactions, environmental diversity, food microbiology, microbial physiology & metabolism, systematics, genomic microbiology and microbial evolution, eukaryotic microorganisms
Ajay Kumar Mishra

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Sustainable Impact Platform
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
SARC, Varanasi, UP
India

Interests:
nature-based solutions, site-specific nutrient management, regenerative agriculture, soil health management
Anas Abdel Rauof Al-Nabulsi

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Food Technology
Faculty of Agriculture
Jordan University of Science and Technology
Irbid
Jordan


Interests:
Food Microbiology, Food Safety, Probiotics, Prebiotics


Ashootosh Mandpe

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Indore
India

Interests:
circular economy, solid waste management, biomedical waste management, anerobic digestion, resource efficiency, sustainable wastewater management, environmental sustainability. 
Ayomide Emmanuel Fadiji

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Western Sydney University
Richmond
Australia

Interests:
Plant-Microbe Interactions, Microbial Ecology, Agricultural Microbiology, Metagenomics, plant pathology and sustainable agriculture.



Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Regional Advisor in Nutrition
Department of NCD and Mental Health
WHO-Regional Office for Eastern-Cairo
Egypt

Interests:
food consumption, online food delivery applications, sustainable food, food consumption
Balasubramanian Ramesh

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan University
Tiruchirappalli
India
Beraat Özçelik

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
Istanbul
Turkey

Interests:
functional foods, bioactive compounds, vegetable meat analogues, 3D printing, waste valorization, encapsulation, bioavailability.
Bilal Aslam

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Qassim University
Buraydah
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Interests:
Antimicrobial Resistance, One Health Dynamics of AMR, Zoonotic Bacterial Pathogens, Gram Negative Bacteria
Conchi Pérez Lamela

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Analytical Chemistry and Food Department
Faculty of Sciences (Campus of Ourense)
University of Vigo
Ourense
Spain

Interests:
sustainable foods, management and water quality, contaminants and minor components in foods
Cornelia Vasile

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Romanian Academy
Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry
Iasi
Romanian

Interests:
smart polymers, food packaging, nanocomposites, coating, plasma, gamma radiation, bioactive polymer materials
Daniel Adu Ankrah

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
University of Ghana
Accra
Ghana

Interests:
Agri-food systems, climate variability and change, digital finance, agricultural extension and rural advisory, and gender
Deborah Murowaniecki Otero

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Food Science
Universidade Federal da Bahia
Salvador
Brazil

Interests:
Unconventional Food Plants, determination of bioactive compounds and isolation of microorganisms for the production of compounds of interest, valorization of co-products and development of new food products



El-Sayed Ewis Omran

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Soil & Water Department
Faculty of Agriculture
Suez Canal University
Ismailia
Egypt

Interests:
Climate change, Spectroscopy, Hyperspectral Imaging, Spatial data sharing, Smart agricultural technology, Agricultural sustainability
Elnaz Milani

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Iranian Academic Center for Education Culture and Research (ACECR)
Mashhad
Iran

Interests:
food extrusion technology, plant-based meat/ meat analog, agricultural and food byproduct management, production of modified starch, functional food,  prebiotic, probiotic
Farzad Bagherzadeh Kasmani

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science
College of Agriculture
University of Zabol
Zabol
Iran

Interests:
Poultry nutrition, feeds and feeding; probiotics, aflatoxicosis, sustainable poultry production, poultry green products, broiler, quail
Affiliation:
Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
Puebla
Mexico

Interests:
Food Science and Technology, food preservation, fermentation, probiotics and probiotics, bioactive compounds




Giorgia Sarais

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Cagliari
Cagliari
Italy

Interests:
food chemistry, food safety, analytical chemistry, food analyses coupled with chemometrics, functional foods, bioactive compounds, polyphenols, natural antioxidants, nutraceuticals, food waste and by-products
Hafiz Ghulam Muhu Din Ahmed

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Plant breeding and Genetics
Faculty of Agriculture and Environment
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Bahawalpur
Pakistan

Interests:
Genome-wide study in cereal crop; Association mapping;  cereal breeding for food security; sustainable yield potential; SSR marker; SNPs and GBS studies; molecular breeding
Hammad Ullah

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Naples
Italy

Interests:
nutraceuticals, functional foods, bioactive compounds, food supplements and ingredients
Hanen Falleh

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Laboratory of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants
Biotechnology Center of Borj-Cédria
Hammam-Lif
Tunisia

Interests:
essential oils, polysaccharides and polyphenols, functional food formulation, natural antioxidants, antimicrobial agents, food preservation
Husnain Raza

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Denmark

Interests:
cheese, umami, non-volatile taste compounds, starch, ultrasound, physicochemical properties
Imran Rehan

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Physics
Islamia College University
Peshawar
Pakistan

Interests:
LIBS, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Machine Learning, AI in healthcare, data classification
Ioannis Savvaidis

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
College of Health Sciences
University of Sharjah
Sharjah
UAE

Interests:
Food Safety, Food Microbiology, Food Chemistry, Food Analysis, Food Assurance, Food Quality Management, Food Security, Food Preservation,  Food Microbiology


Ibtissem Chakroun

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Laboratory of Analysis, Treatment, and Valorization of Pollutants of Environment and Products (LATVPEP)
Faculty of Sciences of Tunis
University of El Manar
Tunis
Tunisia

Interests:
bacterial stress response, probiotics, biotechnology, microbial interactions, pathogenicity, microbial ecology, biological molecular techniques, food biotechnology
Ivan Nastasijevic

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department for Scientific-Technical Cooperation
Institute of Meat Hygiene and Technology
Belgrade
Serbia

Interests:
food safety, food microbiology, meat hygiene and technology, zoonotic pathogens and antimicrobial resistance, meat inspection, veterinary public health, food systems, one health
Jan W. Dobrowolski

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Distinguished Professor AGH University of Science and Technology
Krakow
Poland

Interests:
environmental/nutritional health, human ecology and ecotoxicology, biotechnology and sustainable development, necessary trace elements, primary prevention of cancer, congenital malformations and incurable diseases of civilization (Minamata, Itai-itai)
Jeet Singh Sandhu

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Jobner
Jaipur
India

Interests:
Genetic Improvement, Field crops, Biofortification, Muation breeding, Agricultural Policy development, Research management, Institutional building
Jiangang Li

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Institute of Soil Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nanjing
China

Interests:
microbiome in soil-borne disease, plant-microbe interactions, soil-borne disease control, rhizosphere, soil microbiology
Khue Vu Nguyen

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Jiangsu Vocational College of Medicine
Yancheng
China

Interests:
Genetic diseases, Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative disorders, Cardiovascular diseases, Cancer
Laila A. Hussein

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
National Research Centre
Giza
Egypt

Interests:
Microbiome, intestine flora, gut microbiota, probiotic, functional food, lactobacillus
Leonard Rusinamhodzi

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Legon
Ghana

Interests:
agroecosystems modeling, natural resources management, soil fertility, agronomy, climate change adaptation, financial inclusion
Man-Sheng Wang

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Beijing
China

Interests:
Enzymology, preservation
Mohamed Abbou

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Materials, Natural Substances and the Environment
Department of Chemistry
Faculty of Science and Technology
National Agricultural Research Institute
Tangier
Morocco

Interests:
Indicators, verification, monitoring; environmental health impacts, pesticides, chemical impacts
Mohamed Salah Abbassi

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
University of Tunis El Manar
Tunisian Institute of Veterinary Research
Tunis
Tunisia

Interests:
Zoonotic bacteria, antimicrobial resistance, livestock, human, environment, whole genome sequence, genetic traits, pandemic clones
Muhammad Ashar Ayub

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Institute of Agro-Industry and Environment
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Bahawalpur
Pakistan

Interests:
Plant Nanotechnology, Food Security, Pollutants Movement in Environment, Agriculture and Plant Sciences, Soil Science and Environment, Agro-Industry and Environment
Mohsen Zandi

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
University of Zanjan
Zanjan
Iran

Interests:
Food Engineering, Modelling and Simulation, Encapsulation, Image Processing



Neha Srivastava

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
Varanasi
India

Interests:
Biofuels production (Bio-hydrogen, Bio-ethanol, Cellulases), Biomass processing, Microbial & Bioprocess technologies, Microbial isolation, purification & maintenance, Green nanotechnology, Enzyme Production & purification
Parisa Ziarati

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Islamic Azad University
Tehran Medical Branch
Tehran
Iran

Interests:
Food safety, food toxicology, food chemistry, environmental chemistry, green chemistry
Priyabrata Pal

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
University of South Wales
Pontypridd
United Kingdom
&
Khalifa University
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

Interests:
novel flotation technology, bio-extraction, biosorption, mass spectrometry, green technology
Ranga Rao Ambati

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Vignans Foundation for Science Technology and Research University
Guntur
India

Interests:
Algal biotechnology, plant secondary metabolites, food science and biotechnology, nutraceuticals
Seema Mishra

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
University of Lucknow
Lucknow
India

Interests:
Contamination of trace and toxic elements in soil and water; Interaction of elements with plants; biotransformation of elements; food chain contamination; plant growth promoting microorganism, their role in abiotic stress tolerance
Senthilkumar Nangan

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Metallurgy and Materials Research Institute 
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
Thailand

Interests:
Biofuel cells, Electrochemical detection, Hazardous removal, Waste management, Green Nanotechnology, and Bioenergy generation.




Sobhy El-Sohaimy

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Technology and Organization of Public Catering
Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service, South Ural State University
Chelyabinsk
Russia

Interests:
food science, functional food, bioactive compounds, food chemistry, food safety
Soleiman Abbasi

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Food Colloids and Rheology Laboratory
Department of Food Science and Technology
Faculty of Agriculture
Tarbiat Modares University 
Tehran
Iran

Interests:
Food Colloids and Rheology, Nanotechnology, Microemulsion Technique, Novel Processing Technologies




Shengdong Zhu

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Wuhan Institute of Technology
Wuhan
China

Interests:
functional food processing and phytochemical extraction, especially for biorefining in food processing
Taha Mehany

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Food Technology Department
City of Scientific Research and Technological Application
New Borg El Arab
Egypt

Interests:
analytical chemistry, big data, process analyses, and chemometrics, food analyses coupled with chemometrics, food science and technology, functional foods
Tilak Gasti

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry
Faculty of Sciences
Khaja Bandanawaz University
Kalaburagi
India

Interests:
Bio-plastic, sustainable packaging, nanocomposites, food packaging, water treatment
Wojciech Kolanowski

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine and Internal Nursing
Faculty of Health Sciences
Medical University of Lublin 
Lublin
Poland

Interests:
food security, functional food, healthy diet, obesity, omega-3 fatty acids
Xia Xiang

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
Oil Crops Research Institute
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Beijing
China

Interests:
food nutrition and health, food chemistry, functional food
Yong Guan

Editorial Board Member

Affiliation:
School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering
Lanzhou Jiaotong University
Lanzhou
China

Interests:
Food cold chain refrigeration technology, thermal and humid environment regulation in facility agriculture, renewable energy utilization technology, enhanced heat and mass transfer in heat exchangers, thermal comfort in building environment