5^th Euro-Global Summit and Expo on Food & Beverages June 16-18, 2015 Alicante, Spain

Jens Bleiel is German national and a business economist by training. He started his career at a management consultant company in Germany in the business segments of strategy, organization and personnel. After 5 years, he joined Dutch company Numico and held several management and executive functions in the baby food branch of the company (Milupa, Nutricia, Cow&Gate, amongst other brands). His assignments brought him to Argentina, Germany and the Netherlands. His last function was Global Marketing Director Infant Milks. After 10 years in this business, he joined Dutch multinational DSM, world market leader in vitamins and other food ingredients. As Senior Vice President Metabolic Health Products, he built up the functional food business in the area of metabolic health products, one of the biggest health concerns in the world today. In August 2009, he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Food for Health Ireland and moved over to Ireland. Supported by Enterprise Ireland, Food for Health Ireland (FHI) unites seven of Ireland’s public research organizations (University College Cork, University College Dublin, University of Limerick, Moorepark Food Research Centre, Teagasc, NUI Maynooth, Dublin City University, NUI Galway) and five Irish dairy companies (Carbery Group, Dairygold Co-operative Society Ltd, Glanbia plc.,Kerry Group plc. and the Irish Dairy Board) in a single research centre aimed at developing functional food products to improve people’s health and wellness.

Food Science & Technology

Prasanta K. Kalita is a Professor and Leader of Soil & Water Resources Engineering program of the Agricultural & Biological Engineering Department at the University of Illinois. He also holds appointments as Assistant Dean of Research in the College of ACES and the Director of the ADM Institute for Prevention of Postharvest Loss at the University of Illinois. Kalita is a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and an Honorary Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resources and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Kalita has a well-funded research and education program both nationally and internationally, has guided more than 35 Ph.D. and MS graduate students, advised more than 50 undergraduate research students, and published extensively in peer reviewed journals. He has served as Associate Editor of the Transactions of the ASABE and Applied Engineering in Agriculture as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spatial Hydrology. Kalita has won several departmental, college, campus, regional, and two national awards on teaching, and has been recognized with Distinguished Teacher Scholar Award at the University of Illinois.

Food Science & Technology

Ángel Carbonell-Barrachina got his Ph.D. on Chemistry in 1995, and currently, is Full-Professor of Food Sciences and Technology at the Miguel Hernandez University (UMH), where he leads the Group on Food Quality and Safety. Dr. Carbonell has worked worldwide (UK, USA, Poland, India, etc.) and has authored more than 175 research articles published in international journals within the areas of Food Sciences and Technology, Environmental Sciences and Agriculture. He has coordinated projects funded by the European Union, World Bank, Spanish Government, US Department of Agriculture, and private food companies. At this time his main research topics are food quality and food safety; among his main interests are: use of sensory evaluation in the food industry, industrialization of pomegranate, drying effects on fruits and vegetables, effects of manufacturing on the quality of foods, such as ice-creams, confections, chocolate, etc., and occurrence of chemical pollutants in foods, especially arsenic.

Food Science & Technology

Soledad Prats Moya at present is working as a full time professor in the Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Science Department at the University of Alicante. She graduated in Chemistry at the University of Alicante and had the PhD in 2000. Her research interest lie in food control and developing new simple analytical methods for the determination of food components. She has participated in numerous congress and has published near 30 papers in reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Food Science & Technology

Angel Gil-Izquierdo has completed his PhD at the age of 32 years from University of Murcia (Spain) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and postdoctoral studies from Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA-Clermont-Ferrad-Theix, France) under the supervision of Dr. Claudine Manach, Dr. Christine Morand, Dr. Marie-Noëlle Horcajada and Dr. Augustin Scalbert. Now he is the tenured research scientist at CEBAS-CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) working in human and clinical nutrition, food science and technology, oxidative stress, metabolomics and new markers for detection of human pathologies. He has lead projects from national and international organisms, and he has been member of the Experts Committee at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). To date, he has published 96 papers in reputed journals of the Science Citation Index (SCI).

Food Safety

Professor of the Chemical Engineering Department of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), he received his Ph.D. with honors in Chemical Engineering from UCM in 2000. In 2005, he obtained his Advanced Technician in Occupational Risk Prevention Degree.Modeling complex systems and designing chemometric tools for many fields such as health, engineering, and food technology is the main focus of his research. He collaborates with many universities and national and international research groups.

Food Science & Technology

Gemma Matute received her Bachelors in Protocol and Event Organization at the Camilo José Cela University.Gemma works in the Complutense University of Madrid where she organizes courses, conferences, and workshops. She is a member of the Spanish Association of Protocol.

Management

Prof. Alessandra Bordoni, MD, PhD in Human Nutrition and in Biochemistry, is the coordinator of the Human Nutrition Unit at the Department of Agri-Food Sciences and Technologies, University of Bologna (Italy). Prof. Bordoni performed researches regarding several topics of nutrition and nutritional biochemistry. In these fields, special attention was devoted to bioactive components of foods, to their role in the prevention of diseases and their mechanisms of action, and to the use of the “omics” techniques in the food and nutrition sciences. She is member of the board of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU), and of the Commission that recently updated the Italian RDA (as coordinator of the “Lipids” group) Prof. Bordoni participated different 6th FP EU projects, and she is at present co-coordinator of the 7th FP EU project “Low cost technologies and traditional ingredients for the production of affordable, nutritionally correct foods improving health in population groups at risk of poverty - CHANCE”, and general coordinator of the recently funded 7th FP EU project “Pivotal assessment of the effects of bioactives on health and wellbeing. From human genoma to food industry – PATHWAY-27” She is Editor in Chief of the journal “Food and Nutrition Sciences” and member of the editorial board of the journal “Nutrition, metabolism and cardiovascular diseases”. She is acting as reviewers for many different scientific journals. She has been invitated as speaker to many national and international conferences. She published more than 130 full papers and book chapters in national and international journals on the above mentioned topics.

Food Science & Technology

Romaine Ramananarivo is Full Professor at “Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques of Antananarivo’s University. She set up the PhD training in Agro-Management (november 2002 to december 2014) where she is the first responsible. Since 2005, she has been member of International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) and since 2010, the council representative of Madagascar. Since august 2014, she is the Vice Chairperson of the Commission of Education, Research and Consultancy of ISHS. Since November 2013, she is the Head of Laboratory “Agro-Management, sustainable Development and Territories”. She was Chairman of the independent steering Committee of Competitive Funds for Applied Research / Project of Support for Rural Development (FCRA/PSDR) (2004-2012). She has managed two national and international projects from 2012 to 2014: the land tenure (Collectif SYLVA TERRA) and PESMIX (Mix Payment on Environmental Services) in Madagascar with CIRAD Montpellier. She is General Manager of a private university “ESMIA” (Ecole Supérieure de Management et d’Informatique Appliquée) in Madagascar.

Food Science & Technology

Antonello Santini, Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy, is faculty member of the Department of Pharmacy, University of Napoli Federico II. He has published more than 110 papers in reputed international Journals. Responsible, Virtual Laboratory of Research and Education in Food (www.lva.unina.it). Editor in Chief, Journal of Food Research and Food Science and Technology Letters. Member of the European Food Safety Authority EFSA, ERWG, Parma, Italy. Member of Managing Board, Division of Teachin Italian Chemistry Society (DD-SCI), Italy. His teaching is focused on Food Chemistry. His research activity is in the field of food chemistry; nutraceuticals; food contaminants; mycotoxins and secondary metabolites; food analysis.

Food Technology

Amanda Terol Pardo is working as a researcher since 2007. At present she is working as postdoctoral research in the Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry Department at the University of Genoa (Italy). She graduated in Human Nutrition and dietetics from the University of Alicante (Spain) in 2004 and in Food Science and Technology from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) in 2006. Her doctoral studies were carried out in the University of Alicante in the field of food analysis and she had her European PhD in 2012. Her research career has been focused in food quality,with the development of new analytical techniques for the determination of food components and at present she is also applying these methodologies tobiological samples. She has participated in numerous congresses and has published 8 papers and 3 chapters in well-regarded journals and books.

Food Science & Technology

Gianna Ferretti is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Dept of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. She is also a member of Italian Society of Biochemistry and Italian Society of Human Nutrition. Her scientific activities has been documented in more than 110 scientific publications in peer-reviewed research articles like Study of the structure-function relationship of biological membranes and plasma lipoproteins in normal and pathological conditions, Molecular mechanisms of oxidative damage: the role of endogenous and exogenous antioxidant systems with particular reference to human nutrition.

Biochemistry

Yoav D. Livney, Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Israel [B.Sc. (Suma cum Laude, 1990) in Food Engineering & Biotechnology,Technion;M.S. (1995) Food Engineering,UW Madison, Wisconsin, USA;PhD (2002) Food Engineering& Biotechnology Technion Israel;Post-Doc Food Science, UoG, Guelph, Ontario, Canada]; At Technion since 2004- Lecturer; 2007- Asst. Professor, 2012- Assoc. Prof.An expert in physical chemistry of biopolymers, andbioactivesdelivery. Received many Honors & Awards including the President of Israel’s honor roll, and the Goldberg Research Prize. Prof. Livney authored ~40publications, 8 patents, gave over 30 invited talks and many contributed presentations at international conferences, and mentored 12M.Sc. and 7 Ph.D. students.

Food Science & Technology

Antonia Fernandez Hernandez is a researcher at IFAPA Venta del Llano (Jaén) funded by Agricultural Research Institute of Spain (INIA). Fernandez Hernandez has completed her PhD studies in the doctoral program from University of Jaén (Spain). Moreover, Fernandez Hernandez is a Specialist in sensory analysis in virgin olive oil and in novel techniques RMN for the determination structure of chemistry compounds.

Food Technology

Dragan Milenkovic received his PhD from University of Versailles (France) in molecular genetics. He is currently research scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) at Clermont-Ferrand. The aim of his research is identification of molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular protective effect of bioactive plant compounds, particularly polyphenols. This research is based on nutrogenomic analyses of polyphenols in animal models of atherosclerosis as well in clinical trials in humans. Recently he has been studying the role of polyphenol metabolites on endothelial cell function and underlying mechanisms of action, including the research on miRNA and cell signalling pathways.

Molecular Genetics

Massimo Cecaro after completing the high school in humanistic studies, he moved to the University of Camerino, where he got a Master Degree in Veterinary Medicine and in University of Teramo he successfully got the Specialization. Since the age of 14, he has worked as radio speaker, tv presenter and reporter for a wide range of artistic and scientific events. At the age of 24 he obtained a qualification to practice as a Journalist and in 2007 he was admitted to the National Association of Medical Press (ASMI), where he currently hold the position of National Councilor. He is Resident Member of MJA Medical Journalists’ Association (London). He is Member of EFSA's Expert Database. He has been an invited speaker,mentor and chairman at International events in the field of Public Health and Safety in Canada, US, Europe and Asia. He has been author of several scientific works in public health. He is also director in Italy of a prestigious Educational Centre for work safety and public health. He is actively involved in international projects to improve the role of mass-media in medical sciences, and awarded in Philadelphia, Valencia and Las Vegas with International special recognition. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like: “Journal Food Processing Technology”, “Journal of Veterinary Science & Technology”, and Editor in Chief in the “Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs” and in “Journal of Mass Communication”. He is Reviewer for "Journal od Cancer Science & Therapy”. He is Organizing Commette Member of several International Conferences in US and in Europe.

Scientific Communication

A.K. Srivastava obtained his Ph.D in Soil Science from famous Banaras Hindu University (India), and is currently working as Principal Scientist (Soil Science) at Indian Council of Agricultural Research- National Research Centre for Citrus, Nagpur, Maharashtra (India) as an expert on FRUIT NUTRITION over the last 25 years. Recipient of many awards comprising S.N. Ranade Award for Excellence in Micronutrient Research, Fertilizer Association of India, International Plant Nutrition Institute-Fertilization Association of India and fellow of 9 academic societies including Indian Society of Soil Science. He is credited with 132 research publications in peer reviewed journals of high impact factor. Author of 6 books comprising Advances in Citrus Nutrition by Springer-Verlag, The Netherlands. He was the Keynote Speaker in World Citrus Congress held at Wuhan, China in 2008. He is the Member of Editorial Board of high impact factor peer reviewed journals like Journal of Plant Nutrition, Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, African Journal of Agricultural Research and Associate Editor of Agronomy Journal.

Soil Science

After post graduation from IARI, New Delhi, he joined as Scientist there in 1997. He is Senior Scientist and associated with release of mango hybrids like Pusa Arunima, Pusa Surya, Pusa Lalima, Pusa Shresth, Pusa Pitamber etc., He has published 40 research articles in International journals, 60 in National journals, and authored 8 books. He is recipient of Dr. R.N. Singh award (twice), Dr Rajinder Prasad award (twice), Education award, and Himachal Shri Award. He has also served as International Mango Registrar for about 5 years (1999-2004). He is a member, editorial board of Scientia Horticulturae, International Journal of Fruit Science (U.K.), American Journal of Plant Sciences (US), Journal of Food Processing and Technology (US), and Stewart Postharvest Reviews (UK), and Chief Editor of International Journal of Processing and Postharvest Technology, India

Pre and post harvest management of fruits and vegetables, minimal processing of fruits and vegetables, eco-friendly approaches for post harvest management of fruits and vegetables.

Qiang-Sheng Wu born in 1978 and obtained PhD degree in 2006 from Huazhong Agricultural University, China. Now, Prof. Wu works as the Research Scientist at the College of Horticulture and Gardening/the Institute of Root Biology, Yangtze University. At present, Wu focus on the arbuscular mycorrhizal research in fruit trees. He concerns three highlights: (1) Physiological mechanisms of citrus plants colonized by mycorrhizal fungi under drought, salt stress and temperature stress; and (2) Glomalin-related soil protein functionings released by extraradical hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizas in rhizosphere of citrus. Until now, he has published six books and >50 papers in International popular Journal, such as Soil Biology Biochemistry, Scientific Reports, Mycorrhiza, PLoS One, Fungal Ecology, Plant Growth Regulation, European Journal of Soil Biology, Scientia Horticulturae, etc. He also reviewed ~20 journals including Applied Soil Ecology, Enviromental and Experimental Botany, Microbial Ecology, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, European Journal of Soil Biology, Scientia Horticulturae, Plant Biology, etc. So far, he has completed 7 projects and served as the Editors of three International Journals (Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology; Biotechnology Frontier; Current Horticulture) and the member of Citrus Association in Hubei Province. In addition, Wu wined the Fourth SCOPUS Young Research Award in 2013.

Plant Biology