Name:
Peter Eisner
Organisation:
Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging
Title-Position:
Head of Departments
Food Process Development and
Process Development of Plant Raw Materials
Country:
Germany
Expertise:
Functional Ingredients: isolation of proteins and dietary fibers from oilseeds and pulses including modification of sensory and techno-functional properties and allergenicity of plant proteins for food application.
Food Processing: Radio frequency heating of packed food, microwave processing of fruits and vegetables and high moisture extrusion of plant proteins.
Exploitation of Research Results: long experience in licensing and marketing of food processing technologies and food products, founder and former CEO of Prolupin GmbH, a start-up company producing vegan dairy alternatives from lupin proteins.
Other activities (e.g., membership of other advisory boards):
No additional memberships in scientific advisory boards
Name:
Jan Delcour
Organisation:
KU Leuven
Title-Position:
Professor and Chair of LFoRCe, the Leuven Food Science and Nutrition Research Centre
Country:
Belgium
Expertise:
Food chemistry and biochemistry, cereal science and technology.
Other activities (e.g., membership of other advisory boards):
Member of the Wissenschaftlichen Beirates der Deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittel-chemie”, München (2007 – 2015), Member of the Science Advisory Board of Flanders’ Food since 2008, President-elect of AACC International (2012 – 2013), Member of the Science Advisory Board of the “Centres de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine Français” since 2013, President of AACC International (2013 – 2014), Chairman of the Board of AACC International (2014 – 2015), Deputy Member of the Management Team and the Benelux Regional Board of FoodBest, a consortium preparing a BidBook for the Knowledge Innovation Community (KIC) Food4Future of the EIT since 2012.
Name:
Paul W. O’Toole
Organisation:
School of Microbiology and Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Ireland
Title:
Prof. Microbial Genomics
Country:
Ireland
Expertise:
Diet-microbiota-health interactions, macronutrients and health, genomics of gastrointestinal bacteria and their host interaction mechanisms, composition and function of the gut microbiota, its reaction to habitual diet, and its relationship to health, functional gastrointestinal disorders, and ageing, to develop novel therapeutics, foods and food ingredients and to programme the intestinal microbiota towards promoting health.
Other activities (e.g., membership of other advisory boards):
Research in the lab of Paul O’Toole is supported by Science Foundation Ireland, the Dept. Agriculture Fisheries and Marine (Govt. Ireland), the European Union (FP7) and the US NIH.
Name:
Seppo Salminen
Organisation:
University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Title:
Professor, Director Functional Foods Forum, Faculty of Medicine
Country:
Finland
Expertise:
Intestinal microbiota and health, Functional Foods, Probiotics and Prebiotics, Food safety and toxicology
Other activities (e.g., membership of other advisory boards):
- Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Registered toxicologist (Finland and Eurotox) and Fellow of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority
- Vice Precident of International Scientific Society of Probiotics and Prebiotics
- Member of the Academy of Finland Council on Biosciences and Environment
Name:
Marie Alminger
Organisation:
Chalmers University of Technology
Title:
Professor and Deputy Head of Education at the Department of Biology and Biological Engineering
Country:
Sweden
Expertise:
Food and Nutrition Science, Bioactive compounds; bioavailability/accessibility; gastro-intestinal digestion; food systems; interactions; physicochemical and functional properties; metabolic and physiological effects; sustainable production of healthy and safe food
Other activities (e.g., membership of other advisory boards):
- Board member of the Swedish Nutrition Foundation
- Board member of the Food Accelerator (LiVA), RISE/SP Food and Bioscience
- Member of the European Cost action INFOGEST (FA 1005) “Improving health properties of food by sharing our knowledge on the digestive process”.
- Director of the National Graduate School LiFT “Future Technologies for Food Production”
- Chair of the Swedish Cereal Association
- Expert adviser for assessment of applicants for the position of Senior Lecturer in Food Quality at the Swedish Agricultural University
