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Professor Juan Francisco García Martín’s thesis (University of Jaén) was awarded two Spanish Research Environment Prizes. Afterwards, Professor García Martín took postdoctoral positions at the University of Granada, University College Dublin, and Spanish National Research Council. Additionally, he completed research stays at the Universities Paul Sabatier Toulouse III and Claude Bernard Lyon I. He was also a lecturer at the Spanish Universities of Jaén, Granada, and Málaga. Currently, his research interests focus on the use of by-products in the food industry and food quality. Since 2016, he has been an associate professor at the University of Seville. In addition, Professor García Martín is the head of the Research Group ‘Obtaining Biofuels’ (AGR-155, Andalusia Government, Spain) and he is in the top 2% of the most cited scientists in the high scientific impact list published annually by Stanford University.

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Non-destructive assessment of food quality via hyperspectral imaging and terahertz spectroscopy

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Prof. Dr. Feng is an experienced researcher who has worked in Ireland, China, Spain, and Japan. She is an associate professor at the Kitami Institute of Technology and a visiting researcher at the RIKEN Centre for Advanced Photonics. Her research interest lies in the frontier of meat science and food technology and are targeted on the development of food technology to exploit new foodstuffs and improve food quality and rapidly detect food safety. Up to now, she has published three book chapters and 52 journal papers, including 48 SCI papers in leading inter- and multi-disciplinary journals (newest total impact factor: 312.111, h index = 22). She was also invited to join the Reviewer Board in Foods (the Year 2022 impact factor: 5.2), the Guest Associate Editor for Journal Frontiers in Plant Science (The year 2022 impact factor: 5.6), Foods (The year 2022 impact factor: 5.2), Frontiers in Nutrition (The year 2022 impact factor: 5), Sustainability (The year 2022 impact factor: 3.9), Antioxidants (The year 2022 impact factor: 7.0), and the Editor for the Nova publication “The Book of Flavonoids”. She has also received 47 awards, 12 patents, and secured 29 competitive research fund awards (total >70 million JPY), including “Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)”, “JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists” and so on.

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Non-invasive prediction of quality traits in packaged mango using near-infrared spectroscopy

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Mr. Ding received his master's degree from Nanjing Agricultural University (China) and was awarded a full PhD scholarship by the China Scholarship Council in 2023. He is currently a second-year doctoral student at the University of Seville (Spain), under the supervision of Professor Juan Francisco García Martín. His research focuses on optical food analysis and chemometrics. He has published eight scientific papers in leading international journals, including Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Food Research International, and Journal of Food Engineering, among other peer-reviewed journals.

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Bulk optical properties of anthracnose-infected mango tissues and simulation of light propagation in diseased mango fruit

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Mr. Zuo is currently a fourth-year PhD candidate at Nanjing Agricultural University (China) and is conducting a research stay at the Division of MeBioS, KU Leuven (Belgium), as a visiting doctoral student. His research focuses on the optical characterization of mangoes for quality monitoring using Vis/NIR spectroscopy. He has published fifteen scientific papers in leading international journals, including Postharvest Biology and Technology, Foods, Food Chemistry, Food Research International, International Journal of Food Microbiology, Journal of Food Engineering, among others.