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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.

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
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