Editorial Board

Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Kings College, University of Cambridge (1968), has 1235 international publications in several fields of organic chemistry including 349 books published largely by major U.S. and European presses. He was elected as Fellow of Royal Society (London) (2006) and won the prestigious UNESCO Science Prize (1999). Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was appointed Academician (Foreign Member) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015). He won the “Friendship Award of China” (2014) and was conferred the highest scientific award of China, the International Science & Technology Cooperation Award, by President Xi Jinping (2020). He was bestowed with the International Scientific Corporation Award (2014) and the “Einstein Professorship” by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2013). He was conferred honorary D.Sc. by University of Cambridge and appointed an Honorary Life Fellow of Kings College, University of Cambridge. The Austrian government has honoured him with its highest civil award (“Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande") (2007). He is Professor Emeritus at University of Karachi, Pakistan.

Wuyang Huang is currently a Professor at the Institute of Farm Product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China. He received his PhD, Major in School of Biological Sciences from Faculty of Science, the University of Hong Kong. He has published several articles and conference abstracts in various well-reputed journals. However, his research interests include Food function, Phenolic Compounds, and Antioxidant Effects.

Dr Kit-Leong Cheong received his PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Macau, China. He is now serving as an Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, Shantou University, China. His research interests focus on isolation, purification, structural characterization, biological activities, and prebiotics activities of marine algae polysaccharides and oligosaccharides. He has more than 40 publications in distinguished journals.

Dr. Muhammad Umer Farooq has done his doctorate at Sichuan Agricultural University, China. As a PhD student (2016-2019), he has focused to improve the photosynthetic performance, secondary metabolites (antioxidants and fatty acids) and nutritional aspects (trace elements) of rice to improve the biofortification and remove malnutrition. Currently, he is focusing to know the mysteries in the crop's behaviour and response towards specific stress conditions.

Dr. Volodymyr Ivanov is an expert with more than 32 years of teaching and research experience in biotechnology and microbiology in the universities of Singapore, USA, South Korea, Thailand, and Ukraine. Currently, he is Person-in-Charge of International Biotechnological Research Programs, National University of Food Technologies, Kyiv, Ukraine. He is an editor/author of 15 books published by Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis Group, Woodhead Publishers and 230 papers. His textbook “Environmental Microbiology for Engineers” CRC Press, 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions, was adopted for the related courses in several universities.

Dr. Ebru Yaşa KAFKAS graduated from University of Çukurova (Adana, Turkey). Her PhD was on “Identification of aroma compounds of some strawberry genotypes and relationship between aroma compounds and some fruit quality characteristics”. During her PhD, she studied at Newe Ya’ar Research Center and Volcani research Center (Israel) years from 1998 to 2000 as visiting scientist and worked on “Flavour and Aroma Formation in Strawberry Fruits (F. xananassa), GIF (ISRAEL-GERMANY), Research Grant G591-113.12/98) and Improved Fruit Set and Elimination of Fruit Deformation in Strawberry via Biotechnological Manipulation, BARD (ISRAEL-GERMANY) Projects, 1999. She currently holds the position of Professor of the University of Çukurova, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture and also a member of the Biotechnology Department at the same university. Her scientific interests focus on breeding on fruit quality and to improve fruits rich in health related compounds.

Dr. Wing-Fu Lai obtained his M.Sc. in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology from the City University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Hong Kong. His research interest focuses on the synthesis and engineering of polymeric materials for food and pharmaceutical applications.

Dr. Octavio Paredes-López obtained his PhD, in Plant Biotechnology, from the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Agriculture, Winnipeg, Canada, MSc, in Food Science, from the National Polytechnic Institute, School of Biological Sciences, Mexico City, MSc, in Biochemical Engineering, from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Microbiology, Prague, and BSc (Hons), in Biochemical Engineering, from the National Polytechnic Inst., School of Biological Sciences, Mexico City. His publications include: 250 scientific papers in refereed international journals, 60 scientific reviews and chapters plus 180 popular articles as an Author/coauthor. His awards include: Institute of Food Technologists-USA Fellow. IFT-Kellogg's Award. Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (Trieste, Italy) - Award.

Dr. Jean-François Picimbon received his PhD in Neurosciences-Neurobiology at Aix-Marseille University (Univ. Provence) in 1995, co-director at CNRS-INRA. He completed his doc and postdoc from the USA and Canada. He was an Asst/Assoc. Professor at DNA lab, Ecology Department, Lund University Sweden between 2001-2005, an Adjunct Professor at Agric. Univ. Gembloux, Belgium. Dr. Picimbon has received many international awards for his scientific contributions including "High Level Oversea Scientist" and "Taishan Scholar Oversea Scientist" etc. He is a Director at the Institute of Agricultural Microbiology in Jinan, China. Dr. Picimbon's research interests include: 1) RNA mutations and protein editing for new, functional structural subtypes, molecular biology and medicine, 2) molecular basis of insect olfaction and development of eco-friendly methods (ecodrug ORSA/Odorant Receptor Suppressing Agents) for control of insect sensory/olfactory ability, 3) L. bio-cocktail for cholesterol, fat lipids and heart diseases. He is an Associate Editor and an Editor in Chief of various international journals. Dr. Picimbon has contributed more than 100 Publons Reviews and international scientific publications, book chapters and conferences at the international level.

Dr. Xiaobin Zeng is an Associate Researcher in the Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from Wuhan University. He has published over 70 scientific papers in Advanced Science, Nature Communications, Biochemical Pharmacology, Food and Chemical Toxicology, and other journals. He has also applied 18 patents in China and 7 patents have already been authorized. Dr. Zeng’s research program is focused on Chinese Herbs, cancer, the occurrence and development mechanism of cancer, the effects of functional foods/nutraceuticals on cancer, and bioactive compounds in natural products and herbal remedies for cancer.

Professor Yawen Zeng obtained his PhD. degree in crop genetic and breeding from Yunnan Agricultural University and became a professor in Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China in 2001. He is a post scientist of China Agriculture Research System, vice-chairman of the Barley Professional Committee of the China Crop Society. His research focuses on his own invention of functional food crops to combat human chronic diseases. Professor Zeng have published 350 scientific papers, 7 eLetters of Science and BMJ; He have bred 34 cultivars, have won 13 national and provincial awards as well as 10 new functional food products.

Dr Jiapu Zhang (1971– ) received excellent education from universities and research organizations. He got his bachelor degree in 1993 and first master degree in research in 1996, both from Qufu Normal University, P.R. China; second master degree in research in 2000 from National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore; a PhD degree in 2005 from Federation University, Australia; and then a formal postdoctoral fellowship training from CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Australia. Dr Zhang also received honors in Australia and worldwide for his prion research. In 2011, the report of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Technology Review on his prion results caused worldwide impacts so that several organizations (e.g., the Physics Society of Iran) published his prion results in seven languages. NHMRC (National Health and Medical Research Council) of Australia has assigned him review tasks on prion projects. CSIRO once conferred him an award (together with others) for rabbit prion protein research. He has been a reviewer for many top academic journals (e.g., Nature). All these made Dr. Zhang feels honored for his prion research.