Jesus Martinez-del Rincon is presently a senior lecturer at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast. He received his BSc in Telecommunication Engineering in 2003 and was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Vision in 2008 from the University of Zaragoza for his work on the development of tracking algorithms for video surveillance and human motion analysis. He also worked as a DIRC Research Fellow at Kingston from 2009 to 2012, leading research on human pose estimation. His research interests are human motion analysis, pose estimation, activity recognition, tracking algorithms, and multi-target tracking in real time.
Anastasios Koidis received his BSc in Chemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2001, his MSc in Food Technology and Quality Assurance from the University of Reading (UK) in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Food Chemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2008. From June 2008 to December 2009, he was a research officer at Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre in Dublin. Since 2010, he has been a lecturer in Food Science and Nutrition at the School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast. Dr Koidis' research interests focus on ensuring food integrity and quality and promoting sustainability across the food supply chain. Tassos' skill set includes both wet and dry lab techniques such as spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, chromatography, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and, more recently, and NGS. He applies multi-omics to study how factors such as pre-harvest and post-harvest practices affect horticultural crop quality and nutritional value, with an emphasis on fats and oils and other plant-based foods. He also applies sensor technology to develop applications for food authentication and adulteration detection. He has published more than 72 peer-reviewed papers, led six projects as the PI with aid from reputable funding bodies (European Commission, UKRI, FSA, Innovate UK, and safefood), attracting over £1.2m of funding, and supervised the successful completion of numerous Ph.D. projects by students from diverse backgrounds.
