Announcements

The following four Topical Collections, published in Foods (ISSN: 2304-8158), are calling for papers.

For more detail, and to submit manuscripts, please click on the titles below:

• “Food Hydrocolloids”;
• “Phytonutrients in Food: From Traditional to Rational Usage”;
• “Reviews on Food Microbiology, Foodborne Pathogens, and Probiotics”;
• “Innovative Sensory, Chemosensory, and Chemical Techniques in Beverages Quality”.

We would like to invite you to join the Foods (ISSN: 2304-8158) Reviewer Board (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods).

If you are interested in applying for this role, please click on the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/submission_reviewers.

MDPI would like to invite all recognized experts in their field to attend our Topic Workshop | Scientific Advances in STEM. The aim of this workshop is to provide a platform for scholars in disciplines related to science and engineering to discuss and contribute to the advancement of these fields.

Webinar: Topic Workshop | Scientific Advances in STEM
Date: 12/1/2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. (CET)
Register in advance for this webinar here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the workshop. The number of participants in the live session is limited, but the recording will be made available shortly afterwards. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.

Workshop Chairperson:

• Ana María Beltrán Custodio, University of Seville (US)

Dr. Ana M. Beltrán has a Ph.D. in material science and is currently an Associate Professor of Material Science at the University of Seville (Spain). Her scientific interests include the characterization of different materials, both at a macroscale (concerning the mechanical properties of biomaterials) and at a nanoscale, through transmission electron microscopy (structural and compositional analysis of bio-nanostructures, semiconductor, and catalysts) to understand their behavior. She has been the Guest Editor of Special Issues for the journal Metals, and she also contributed to MDPI’s first multidisciplinary topic involving the journals Metals, Polymers, Foods, Sustainability, and Sensors, from which a book was published. She is currently involved in the running of a second multidisciplinary topic entitled “Scientific Advances in STEM: Synergies to Achieve Success”.

Workshop Speakers:

• Frank Jörg Clemens, Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Überlandstrasse

Dr. Frank Clemens is a Group Leader (Smart Ceramic Processing) at the Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, Switzerland. His scientific and applied research belongs to the thermoplastic processing of powder-based sensors, actuators, and structural materials. His group focuses on national and international projects in this field, and he works with physicists, chemists, material scientists, and engineers to investigate activation energies on different processing steps. In addition, he has also developed new strategies for the processing of functional ceramics and soft sensor materials and structures. Since 2003, he has been a lecturer at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and between 2010 and 2021, he was a lecturer at ZHAW (Switzerland). He has more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and patents.

• Dr. Carlos Bengoechea, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Sevilla, Seville, Spain

Prof. Dr. Carlos Bengoechea is an Associate Professor at the University of Seville, Spain, where he teaches different courses, such as Chemical Engineering or Polymeric Materials. He has wide experience in the development of applications (e.g., plastics, emulsions) that add value to by-products of the industry (e.g., soy protein, porcine plasma). Currently, he is supervising an R&D project on green superabsorbent materials for personal care applications using different by-products.

We are pleased to provide this excellent opportunity to all the brilliant researchers to propose and develop new approaches, exchange perspectives, and encourage new lines of research.

To find out more about the speakers and the program, please visit https://sciforum.net/event/SASTEM. We hope you can join us for this event.

Shun Li
MDPI Guest Editor Club
Conference Secretariat

If you would like to set up your own Special Issue in Foods, please click here to apply. You are especially welcome to contribute to the following four Sections: “Food Security and Sustainability”, “Food Quality and Safety”, “Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry”, and “Sensory and Consumer Sciences”.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

According to data from Web of Science, we are very proud to congratulate the following 20 Editorial Board Members of Foods (ISSN: 2304-8158 ) for being selected as “2021 Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate. We congratulate the following authors for receiving this award and we expect them to lead Foods to more achievements in the future.

1. Name: Dr. Francisco J. Barba
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: Francisco.Barba@uv.es
Affiliation: Nutrition and Food Science Area, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Science, Toxicology and Forensic Medicine Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitat de València, Avda. Vicent Andrés Estellés, s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
Interests: nutrients; bioactive compounds; food preservation; thermal treatment; innovative processing; high-pressure processing; compressed fluids; pulsed electric fields; ultrasound; microwaves; phytochemical purification; phytochemical analysis; compound isolation; bioaccessibility; bioavailability
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/FranciscoJBarba;
https://www.uv.es/uvweb/universidad/es/ficha-persona-1285950309813.html?p2=barfran&idA=true

2. Name: Dr. Predrag Putnik
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: pputnik@alumni.uconn.edu
Affiliation: Department of Food Technology, University North, Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: general statistics; research methodology; experimental design; mathematical modeling; multivariate analysis; novel food processing and extraction technologies
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/237870

3. Name: Prof. Dr. Soottawat Benjakul
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: soottawat.b@psu.ac.th
Affiliation: International Center of Excellence in Seafood Science and Innovation (ICE-SSI), Faculty of Agro-Industry, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand
Interests: food proteins; protein hydrolysate; food lipids; functional properties (gelation, film formation, emulsification); seafood quality; seafood enzymes; non-thermal process; plant polyphenols; surimi; shelf-life extension; utilization of fish processing byproducts; functional ingredients; active packaging
Homepage: https://agro.psu.ac.th/agro5/en/faculty-staff/57-department-of-food-technology/107-soottawat-benjakul.html;
https://sciprofiles.com/profile/1412196

4. Name: Dr. Didier Dupont
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: didier.dupont@inrae.fr
Affiliation: INRAE, L'Institut Agro, UMR Science and Technology of Milk and Eggs, 65 rue de Saint-Brieuc, 35000 Rennes, France
Interests: food digestion; in vitro and in vivo models; bioactive peptides; nutrient bioavailability; food structure; milk and dairy products
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/1231958

5. Name: Dr. Mario Estévez
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: mariovet@unex.es
Affiliation: IPROCAR Research Institute, University of Extremadura, Avda Universidad s/n 10003, Caceres, Spain
Interests: protein oxidation; lipid oxidation; Maillard reaction; muscle foods; phytochemicals; natural antioxidants; food biochemistry; nutrition
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/794191

6. Name: Prof. Dr. Daniel Granato
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: daniel.granato@ul.ie
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Interests: reactive oxygen species; inflammation; antioxidants; multivariate data analysis; phenolic compounds; statistical optimization; food chemistry; analytical methods; phenolic compounds; food fraud
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/851666

7. Name: Dr. Charis M. Galanakis
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: cgalanakis@chemlab.gr
Affiliation: Department of Research & Innovation, Galanakis Laboratories, Skalidi 34, GR-73131, Chania, Greece
Interests: food recovery; food waste; natural products; phytochemical analysis; polyphenols; membrane technologies
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/80695

8. Name: Prof. Dr. Jose Angel Perez-Alvarez
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: ja.perez@umh.es
Affiliation: IPOA Research group. AgroFood Technology Department, Orihuela Polytechnical High School. Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Orihuela, Spain
Interests: functional and healthy foods; dietary fibers; healthy meat products; animal-based foods; plant protein analogues
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/1004990

9. Name: Dr. Isidra Recio
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: i.recio@csic.es
Affiliation: Institute of Food Science Research, CIAL (CSIC-UAM), Nicolás Cabrera 9, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: protein gastrointestinal digestion; food proteins and peptides; biological activity of food proteins and peptides; satiating effect of proteins; protein nutritional quality; proteomics and peptidomics
Homepage: https://www.cial.uam-csic.es/pagperso/biopep/index_eng.html

10. Name: Dr. Qin Wang
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: wangqin@umd.edu
Affiliation: Nutrition and Food Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: biopolymer biophysics; food nanotechnology; micro- and nano-encapsulation for controlled release; functional foods; nutrient delivery; biodegradable packaging materials; microgreen; antimicrobial agents and antioxidants; biosensor; biopolymer coatings
Homepage: https://agnr.umd.edu/about/directory/qin-wang;
https://sciprofiles.com/profile/1900

11. Name: Prof. Dr. Guowen Zhang
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: gwzhang@ncu.edu.cn
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
Interests: food chemistry; food analysis; interaction; mechanism of action of small compounds and biomolecules; inhibitory effect of enzymatic activity; food contaminants; bioactive compounds
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/1698750

12. Name: Prof. Dr. Min Zhang
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: min@jiangnan.edu.cn
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Interests: food drying; food 3D printing; food preservation; food freezing
Homepage: http://foodsci.jiangnan.edu.cn/szdw/js/Z/zm.htm

13. Name: Prof. Dr. Haiying Cui
Category: Cross-Field
Email: cuihaiying@ujs.edu.cn
Affiliation: School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
Interests: foodborne pathogen; food safety; biofilm; food packaging; essential oil
Homepage: https://spswxy.ujs.edu.cn/info/1009/5120.htm

14. Name: Prof. Dr. Eric A. Decker
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: edeckerma@gmail.com
Affiliation: Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Chenoweth Laboratory, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Interests: functional and nutritional aspects of lipids; lipid oxidation; antioxidants and chelators
Homepage: https://www.foodsci.umass.edu/faculty/eric-decker

15. Name: Prof. Dr. Rotimi Aluko
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: rotimi.aluko@umanitoba.ca
Affiliation: Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Interests: food proteins; functional properties; bioactive peptides; spontaneously hypertensive rats; circular dichroism; protein hydrolysates; enzyme inhibition kinetics; angiotensin converting enzyme; renin; QSAR; antioxidants; antihypertensive
Homepage: https://umanitoba.ca/agricultural-food-sciences/rotimi-aluko;
https://sciprofiles.com/profile/84838

16. Name: Dr. Hongbin Pu
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: fehbpu@scut.edu.cn
Affiliation: School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Interests: food safety; food detection; nanoparticles
Homepage: https://www2.scut.edu.cn/food_en/2017/0224/c6187a158406/page.htm

17. Name: Prof. Dr. Jorge Manuel Alexandre Saraiva
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: jorgesaraiva@ua.pt
Affiliation: Associate Laboratory LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: high-pressure food applications; food properties improvement; foods production
Homepage: https://laqv.requimte.pt/people/1725-jorge_manuel_alexandre_saraiva

18. Name: Prof. Dr. Jianhua Xie
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: jhxie@ncu.edu.cn
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
Interests: polysaccharide; functional foods; microbiome; hydrocolloids; biopolymers
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/330767

19. Name: Prof. Dr. Danijela Bursać Kovačević
Category: Agricultural Sciences
Email: dbursac@pbf.hr
Affiliation: Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: functional food; thermal and non-thermal food processing; bioactive compounds; food chemistry; sustainability; 3D printing
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/390659

20. Name: Dr. Amin Mousavi Khaneghah
Category: Cross-Field
Email: mousavi@unicamp.br
Affiliation: Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Interests: mycotoxins; food contamination; potentially toxic elements (PTEs); pesticide; food safety; food process engineering
Homepage: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/824291

The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of Science: https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.

We would like to invite you to contribute to the new Section of Foods (ISSN: 2304-8158): “Foodomics”.

More information can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/sections/foodomics.

You are also welcome to apply to join the Editorial Board of this Section, or set up a Special Issue within your research scope. If you are interested, please email zane.zhang@mdpi.com or foods@mdpi.com.

It is our great honor to congratulate the Editorial Board Members and Editors in MDPI's journals who have been distinguished as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, according to Web of Science data. We herewith express our gratitude for the immense impact the named researchers continue to make on scientific progress and on our journals' development.

Clarivate's annual list of Highly Cited Researchers^TM identifies the most highly cited scientists for the past decade. Their impactful papers are among the top 1 per cent in the citation distribution of one or more of 22 fields analyzed in the "Essential Science Indicators", distinguishing them as hugely influential among their peers.

The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of Science^TM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

Academic editors play a crucial role in leading our journals and ensuring that each article undergoes a robust and timely peer-review. With the launch of Topics this year and addition of Topic Editors to our family of academic editors, we decided it would be a good time to restructure our academic boards, thus providing more clarity and support for each role. MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of a new position—Topical Advisory Panel Member, that will replace the previous position of Topics Board Member. The Topical Advisory Panel will be comprised of early career researchers eager to gain experience in editorial work.

The main responsibility of the new members of the Topical Advisory Panel is to regularly provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. The responsibilities of the Topical Advisory Panel are available here: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.

Each year, the members’ performances are evaluated, and outstanding members are promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor-in-Chief.

To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants must:

• Have expertise and experience in the field related to the journal;
• Have received a Ph.D. in the last 10 years, approximately;
• Have at least 6-8 published papers in the last 5 years as first author or corresponding author;
• Currently hold an independent research position in academia or a government institute.

If you are interested in this role, please contact the editorial office by email.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

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For the last 25 years, MDPI has been committed to disseminating open research. Here is a video showing MDPI’s Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for More than 25 Years.

International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress in the building of more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. MDPI has always aimed to provide professional and efficient publishing services to scholars around the world.

Our mission is to make scientific research accessible to everyone; this year, we interview and hold discussions with open science ambassadors on how to build an equal and inclusive environment for open science. Academic editors help us collaborate with more institutions to advocate for open access ideas.

Read our anniversary blog post: "Sharing 'Collective Human Knowledge': The Benefits of Open Access Publication"

Besides this, our scientific community is a key driver of our success and MDPI’s remarkable growth. Despite the pandemic, we have prepared online conferences and workshops to gather scholars from different communities.

The Basel Sustainable Publishing online forum provides an equal opportunity for stakeholders and researchers from multi-cultural environments to exchange ideas and eliminate barriers to participation.

Conference date: 25 October 2021, online
Conference website: https://bspf2021.sciforum.net/
Main topics: MDPI discusses the current dilemma of open access science from various perspectives such as governments, libraries, and publishers, and related measures on how to change the status quo of discrimination from a global perspective.

We aim to support equality, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. We collaborate with universities and key laboratories and have scholarly communications with researchers, teachers, and students on open access workshops.

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• Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu;
• Alban Kuriqi;
• Álvaro González-Vila;
• Alessandro Alaimo;
• Alexey Beskopylny;
• Alexander Yu Churyumov;
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