Prof. Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland (Australia), in 2007. Now, he is a

full-time Prof. in GUASNR (Iran) and part-time Prof. in SAAS (China).

He has published more than 850 papers in International Journals (h-index=124

in Scopus and 136 in Google Scholar) and 110 book chapters/40 books with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. Selected achievements:

- One of the world's highly cited researchers (1% top scientists) by Scopus (Elsevier)

- One of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology

- One of the world's highly cited researchers (HCR; 0.1% top scientists) by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science)

- A top reviewer in the field of agricultural and biological sciences by Publons.

Wanli Zhang: Ph.D., associate professor at the School of Food Science and Engineering, Hainan University, tutor for Ph.D./Master students, graduated from China Agricultural University, and jointly trained doctoral students with Kyung Hee University in South Korea. Hainan University introduces high-level talents, and its research direction is agricultural product processing, storage and preservation. In the past five years, he has published more than 50 SCI papers as the first author in journals such as Trends in food science and technology and Food Chemistry. He has been selected as ESI Highly Cited 8 papers with a cumulative impact factor of 300+. Selected into the list of the world's top 2% scientists in 2023. Invited to serve as reviewer for journals such as Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, invited to participate in the editing of 1 English book, chaired 1 National Natural Science Foundation project, and participated in multiple national key research and development plan sub-topics and National Natural Science Foundation general projects and other national projects.