Ursula Gonzales-Barron graduated with first-class honors from the Faculty of Food Industries at the National Agricultural University La Molina (UNALM), Peru; later on, she obtained the title of Food Engineer. She pursued Ph.D. studies at the Biosystems Engineering Department of University College Dublin (UCD). She is currently a Principal Investigator at the Mountain Research Centre (CIMO) based at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal, where she leads the Food Safety and Quality Analytics research group. Her expertise resides in computational approaches for food safety and quality, including predictive microbiology, meta-analysis, and risk assessment of pathogens. She is the developer of the Pathogens-in-Foods database and has led many European-funded projects. She is also an Invited Professor at the Ph.D. program of food science at UNALM.

Vasco Cadavez obtained his first degree in animal husbandry engineering in 1993 and his master's degree in animal production with a specialization in feed and nutrition in 1998 at the Portuguese University of Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro. Following his novel research on carcass composition and quality using ultrasound, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2004. He is currently a Professor at the Animal Science Department of the Polytechnic Institute of Braganza (IPB), where he teaches the subjects of animal breeding, biotechnology applied to animal production, animal production systems, experimental design, and data analysis. He is also an active research member of the Food Safety and Technology Group at the CIMO Mountain Research Centre, based at IPB. Dr. Cadavez developed expertise in a wide range of mathematical and statistical modeling techniques. Among these mathematical modeling techniques, he has expertise in differential equations, dynamic modeling, and optimization. Dr. Cadavez is very knowledgeable in computer programming, specifically the use of R software and SQL processing, which he teaches at undergraduate level and in workshops. Some of his current research interests are the applications of Monte Carlo simulation, Bayesian statistics, meta-analysis, dynamic modeling, and acceptance sampling theory in food safety and predictive microbiology.

Juliana De Oliveira Mota is a Technical Officer in Nutrition and Food Safety at the World Health Organization. She received her Ph.D. in Food Safety at the Oniris School of Food and Biotechnology engineering, Nantes, France, in 2020. Food safety is a priority for her. Her professional objective is to use her acquired and future skills to guarantee the quality and safety of food products, considering the risks and benefits, with a One Health approach.

Laurent Guillier received a Master of Science in Applied Microbiology in 2001 from the University of Burgundy. In 2006, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on predictive microbiology at the National Institute of Agronomy of Paris-Grignon. He is currently a researcher at the Risk Assessment Department in ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety). Since 2006, he has worked in the French food safety agency on microbial risk assessment, genomics, modelling, source attribution, food safety, and sampling. He was in charge of the scientific coordination of, and a task leader for, several French ANR projects. He has also been involved in several European projects (RAKIP project, EFSA CALL BIOCONTAM, H2020-COMPARE, EJPOH LISTADAPT, CARE etc.).

Moez Sanaa is currently a lead in scientific advice at the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety department at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He has been the Head of the Unit at the Risk Assessment Department,  ANSES-French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety since 2009. Between 1998 and 2009, Moez Sanaa served as an Associate Professor at the National Veterinary School of Alfort, France. Moez Sanaa has a Ph.D. degree. His research areas are biostatistics, epidemiology, and food safety risk assessment. Moez Sanaa has published more than 90 documents, and his h-index is 33, with more than 3600 citations (according to Scopus).