Professor Gustavo Molina graduated in Food Engineering, earned his Master's degree (2010) and his PhD (2014) at the University of Campinas - Unicamp (Campinas - Brazil), and part of his doctoral research was developed at the Laboratoire de Génie Chimique et Biochimique at the Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand - France). Since 2013, he is Associate Professor at UFVJM (Diamantina - Brazil) in Food Engineering and supervisor of students and researchers, being the head of the Laboratory of Food Biotechnology and conducting scientific and technical research. Dr. Minaxi Sharma is currently working as ERA Chair VALORTECH-Senior Research Scientist, Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU), Tartu, Estonia. She is also the Assistant Professor, Department of Food Technology, Akal College of Agriculture, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr Rachid Benhida is currently Director of research at CNRS (DR1), Co-Director of the ICN institute for more than 8 years, and team leader of Bioactive Molecules' team. He received his Ph.D. from University of Paris XI, Orsay, France. Prof. Vipin Chandra KALIA received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Genetics from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI.), New Delhi, India. He superannuated as Deputy Director, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi, India, in 2016. He was Emeritus Scientist at CSIR-IGIB in 2017. Since 2018, as a Professor Department of Chemical Engineering at Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea, Franciele Maria Pelissari graduated in Food Engineering; earned her master's degree (2009) at the University of Londrina (UEL), Londrina, Brazil; and her PhD (2013) at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil. Since 2013, she has been associate professor at the Institute of Science and Technology program at the Federal University of Jequitinhonha and Mucuri (UFVJM), Diamantina, Brazil, in Food Engineering, and also full professor in the graduate program in Food Science and Technology. Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta received his PhD in Microbiology in the year 2009 from Dr RML Avadh University, India. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor (Biochemistry) at AgroBioSciences (AgBS)/Chemical & Biochemical Sciences (CBS), UM6P University, Morocco. Prof. Ramesh Chander Kuhad is M.Sc, M.Phil and Ph.D. in Microbiology and has been working as Vice-Chancellor at the Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh. He is also the Chairman of Indian Academy of Microbiological Sciences and has served as Member, University Grants Commission and the Joint Director of Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL), University of Delhi, Delhi.
