About the Editors

Editors-in-Chief

Pingfan Rao, PhD
Director, Joint Center for Food and Nutrition Research
Zhejiang Gongshang University
Hangzhou, China


Pingfan Rao is currently a Professor and founding Director of CAS.SIBS-Zhejiang Gongshang University Joint Center for Food and Nutrition Research, and a Professor of Fuzhou University of China. His research focuses primarily on identifying and characterizing bioactive proteins and expression and scale production of recombinant enzymes, protein derivatives as the active ingredients of food, new methodology for cell separation and superoxide channels.

Christopher Elliott, PhD
Vice Chancellor, the Medical and Life Sciences Faculty
Queen's University Belfast,
Belfast, United Kingdom


Christopher Elliott is a Professor of Food Safety, founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast and former Pro Vice Chancellor for the Medical and Life Sciences Faculty. His main research interests are in the development of innovative techniques to provide early warning of contamination incidents across complex feed and food supply systems. Protecting the integrity of the food supply chain from fraud is one of his key research themes.

Senior Managing Editor

Viki Hurst, PhD





Viki obtained her PhD in animal behaviour and psychopharmacology at Newcastle University and did postdoctoral work at the University of Sheffield investigating treatments in animal models of cancer-induced bone pain. She later worked for a UK research funder where she developed resources to improve the experimental design and reporting of in vivo research. Viki has several years’ experience in OA publishing, first as an Editor for Scientific Data, and is now Senior Managing Editor at the npj series.

Viki is based in the Springer Nature London office.

Associate Editors

Afroditi ChatzifragkouAfroditi Chatzifragkou, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
University of Reading
Reading, UK


My research interests include: i) bioconversions of renewable resources through the use of microorganisms/ enzymes for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids, biopolymers, pigments and platform chemicals; ii) process development for biomass pre-treatment/ downstream processing; iii) evaluation of functionality and properties of extracted/ value-added compounds in new products/ applications.

Hongda Chen, PhD
National Program Leader, Bioprocess Engineering and Nanotechnology
National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA
Washington D.C., USA


Hongda Chen is the National Program Leader for Bioprocess Engineering and Nanotechnology at USDA/ NIFA. He has been providing national leadership to develop nanoscale science, engineering and technology for agriculture and food systems, and engineering approaches for research, development, education and extension for improving food quality, safety and nutritional value. He focuses on nanoscale science, nanotechnology and engineering for agriculture and foods.

Lijing Ke, PhD,
University of Leeds,
Leeds, United Kingdom


 

Lijing Ke is a Professor at the University of Leeds. Prior to moving to Leeds, he spent 10 years working at the School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University (China), after he obtained a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics in 2011 from the University of Edinburgh. His current research interests are to explore the nature and evolution of nanostructures in typical processed foods, to gain detailed insights on the fate of food nanostructures in alimentary tract including interactions with macromolecules and vesicles, and to design and develop multi-purpose and plant-based nano-assemblies consolidating redox and immune regulatory capacities for promoting food safety, nutrition security and human/animal health.

Doris Marko, PhD
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria



Doris Marko is Professor of Food Chemistry at the University of Vienna (Austria) and head of the Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology. With a respective dual educative background, she synergistically combines both fields, state-of-the-art analytics with toxicological/mechanistical approaches, to address pressing questions of consumer safety. Actual fields of research include hazard characterization of emerging contaminants, the complex interaction of contaminants with potentially co-occurring bioactive food constituents or pharmaceutical drugs as well as novel strategies for risk assessment of chemical mixtures.

Awanwee Petchkongkaew, PhD
International Joint research Center on Food Security, Thammasat University (Rangsit campus) and Queen’s University Belfast
PathumThani, Thailand and Belfast United Kingdom


Awanwee started working at Thammasat University in 2008. Awanwee founded The International Joint Research Center on Food Security (IJC-FOODSEC) in July 2008. Awanwee has more than 15 years-experiences in food safety, food fermentation, food contaminants especially mycotoxins.

Saskia van Ruth, PhD
Professor, Wageningen University and Research
Wageningen, the Netherlands



Saskia van Ruth completed her PhD in flavour science at Wageningen University in the Netherlands in 1995. She continued research and teaching in the same field in the Netherlands and from 1998 in Ireland. From 2005, when she moved back to the Netherlands, she has worked at Wageningen University and Research on the assurance of integrity in food supply chains covering both natural and social sciences. She was appointed professor in 2012, and has also been affiliated with Queen’s University Belfast and University College Cork over the years.

Kenji Sato, PhD
Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture
Kyoto University
Kyoto,  Japan


Kenji Sato is a professor of Graduate School of Agriculture at Kyoto University. Kenji's work focuses on the identification of bioactive peptides in enzymatic hydrolysates of food proteins and fermented foods. Of special interest are the anti-inflammatory and wound healing-enhancing peptides. His research program also investigates their bioavailability, metabolic fate in animal and human and molecular mechanisms for in vivo activities.

Xin Wang, PhD
Principal research scientist, Food research Institute
Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences
China



Dr. Xin Wang’s research interests focus on the impacts of the environmental factors, particularly the food ingredients on the development and function of gut microbiota in health and disease. A series of gut models including chemostats, organoids and animal models are used to evaluate the effects of dietary carbohydrates and proteins on the gut microflora.

Weibiao Zhou, PhD
Director, Food Science and Technology Program
National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore


Weibiao Zhou is a full professor and Director of the Food Science and Technology Program at National University of Singapore (NUS).  His research interest is in food engineering and processing, particularly baking, dairy, drying, functional foods, innovative processing technologies and process modeling, optimization and control. 

Emeritus Editors-in-Chief 

Professor Baoguo Sun
President, Beijing Technological and Business University
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Beijing, China


Professor Baoguo Sun, President of Beijing Technology and Business University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, will be Founding Editor-in-Chief for the new journal. He also serves as Vice President of the China National Light Industry Council, the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology, the China Association of Nutrition and Healthy Food, the China Association of Fragrance Flavor and Cosmetic Industries and the China Food Additives and Ingredients Association. He received his B.Eng. and M.Sc. from Beijing Technology and Business University, and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University.
 

Sharon Shoemaker, PhD
Director, California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research
University of California, Davis
CA, USA


Sharon Shoemaker is the founder and Executive Director of the California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research and a founding partner with Food Foresight, Global HealthShare and the Global Action Platform. Her research interests focus on the application of celluloses in biomass conversion (e.g. rice straw, wood, mixed waste paper), the integration of various unit operations in biomass conversion processes (membrane filtration, enzymes) and the development of new analytical methods for quantifying specific cellulase activities.

Editorial Board Members

Jose Miguel Aguilera, PhD, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
V. M. Balasubramaniam, PhD, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
Ruth M. Barrientos, PhD, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
Saurabh Bhatia, PhD, ​Natural & Medical Sciences Research Center, ​University of Nizwa, Oman
Luis Botana, PhD, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
Ken Buckle, PhD, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Jian-She Chen, PhD, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China
Pavinee Chinachoti, PhD, Food Science and Technology Association of Thailand, Thailand
Roger A. Clemens, PhD, University of Southern California, California, USA
Kai Cui, PhD, hanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Ren-You Gan, PhD, Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI) Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Ralf Greiner, PhD, Max Rubner-Institut, Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food, Germany
Brian Guthrie, PhD, Cargill, Inc.,Minnesota, USA
Anne-Marie Hermansson, PhD, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Lucy Sun Hwang, PhD, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China
Jean-Christophe Jacquier, PhD, Institute of Food and Health, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
Frans Kampers, PhD, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, Netherlands
Dietrich Knorr, PhD, Berlin University of Technology, Int. Union of Food Science and Technology, Berlin, Germany
Bruno Le Bizec, PhD, Nantes University, Nantes, France
Peter Lillford, PhD, University of Birmingham , Birmingham, UK
Keshun Liu, PhD, United States Department of Agriculture, Aberdeen, Idaho, USA
Zhibin Liu, PhD, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
John McDermott, PhD, International Food Policy Research Institute, DC, USA
Yoshinori Mine, PhD, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Alyson Mitchell, PhD, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Kevin Moore, PhD, University College London, London, UK
Katsuyoshi Nishinari, PhD, Hubei University of Technology, Hubei, China
Ruth Oniang'o, PhD, Sasakawa Africa Association, Nairobi, Kenya
Weng Kung Peng, PhD, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, China
Vish Prakash, PhD, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Christos Ritzoulis, PhD, International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Raymond Rodriguez, PhD, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Delia Rodriguez-Amaya, PhD, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Israel Sam Saguy, PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Mary Schmidl, PhD, University of Minnesota, Intt.Union of Food Science and Technology, Minnesota, USA
James Seiber, PhD, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Carolyn Slupsky, PhD, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Sarah Spencer, PhD, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Erik van der Linden, PhD, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
Jennifer Wan, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Qiang Wang, PhD, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Hang Xiao, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, USA
Rickey Y. Yada, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Wallace Yokayama, PhD, United States Department of Agriculture, California, USA
Liying Zhu, PhD, Institute of Food Science, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

 

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