Dr. Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD degree in 2006 in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia. He has extensive experience in the field of food process engineering, conducting research on nanotechnology and its processes and being reviewer of some important journals as Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies, Journal of Food Engineering, Journal of Food Process Engineering, Industrial Crops and Products and Food Technology and Biotechnology. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Food Materials and Process Design Engineering, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Pardis, Basidj Square, Gorgan, Iran, and he is an academic member of GAU (Iran). He has published more than 85 papers in top-ranked international food science journals and 18 book chapters, along with editing four books with LAP and Elsevier publishers. In November 2015, he was awarded as one of the top 1% scientists of the world with the highest citations by Thompson Reuters (Essential Scientific Indicators) in the field of Biological Sciences.

1. "Encapsulation of Nano-Emulsions by Spray Drying” published by LAP (Germany), 2009,

2. "Nano-encapsulation Technologies for the Food and Nutraceutical Industries", Elsevier, 2017,

3. "Nano-encapsulation of Food Bioactive Ingredients; Principles and Applications", Elsevier, 2017,

4. "Nano-emulsions: Formulation, Characterization, and Applications", Elsevier, 2017 (co-edited with Prof. David Julian McClements).

5 . "Nanoencapsulation in the Food Industry Series”. This is a 7 volume series approved in 2017 that is going to be published over the course of 2019-2021.

and some book chapters such as:

· Jafari, S.M., Fathi, M., and Mandala, I.G., 2015. Chapter 13: "Emerging product formation" in the book "Food Waste Recovery: Processing technologies and industrial techniques", Edited by Galanakis, C., Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-800351-0.

· Jafari, S.M. and McClements, D.J., 2017. Chapter 1: "Nanotechnology approaches for increasing nutrient bioavailability" in the book "Advances in Nutrition and Food Research (Vol. 81)", Edited by Toldra, F., Elsevier.

Locally in Iran, he has also published 20 books in Persian. In November, 2015, he was awarded as one of the top 1% scientists of the world with the highest citations by Thompson Reuters (Essential Scientific Indicators) in the field of Biological Sciences.

Esra Çapanoglu Güven, a full professor at the Department of Food Engineering, and leading international food chemist, is known for her expertise in processing and food matrix effects on the content and bioavailability of bioactives. She has also made important contributions to investigating methods to improve the bioavailability of bioactive compounds, as well as waste valorization. She has published three books, 30 chapters and more than 300 international/national scientific papers. She was selected as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2019, 2022, and 2023 by Clarivate, Web of Science Group. She has also been indicated as the top 2% of scientists of the main subfield discipline according to the list created by Stanford University for the last 4 years (2020-2023). She also received Georg Forster Prize from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in July 2022. She has been selected as an Associate Member for the Turkish Academy of Sciences starting from 2023. She is an Assoc. Editor in ACS Omega and Editorial Advisory Board Member of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (JAFC), Food Frontiers, Journal of Berry Research, Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, and several others.