Oil-Encapsulated Powders for Functional Foods Preparation and Practice

Dr. Jian Zhong is currently a full Professor at School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his bachelor degree in Pharmaceutics from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University in 2002 and his Ph.D. degree in Biomechanics and Medical Engineering from Peking University in 2007. Then he worked as a Postdoc (2007-2010) at University College Dublin, Ireland. After that, he acted as an associate Professor in National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology (2011-2015), China. He was elected as Academic Leader of Public Health of Shanghai (2023-2025), Shanghai Pujiang Talent (2012) and Minhang District Leading Talent (2011). He was also a Visiting Scholar (2007-2008) of Purdue University and is a Senior Visiting Scholar (2016-2017) in Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include: Medical Foods, Food Nutrition, Food Quality Evaluation Technology, and Nanotechnology. He has published more than 120 corresponding author papers. He acted as the first editors of Evaluation Technologies for Food Quality (2019) and Fundamentals and Application of Atomic Force Microscopy for Food Research (2022). He also translated Atomic Force Microscopy for Biologists into Chinese (2019). He acts as Editorial Board for Trends in Food Science & Technology and Food Science and Human Wellness. He also acts as associate editors for Frontiers in Nutrition and Frontiers in Pharmacology.

Xuebing Xu, is the general manager for Wilmar Global R&D Center. He is also honorary professor in the Faculty of Science and Technology of Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests include lipid technology, enzyme technology, food functionality, food nanotechnology, biofuel technology, etc. with particular focus on structured lipids, biocatalysis, process technology, phospholipids, ionic liquids, biodiesels, food physics, etc. Xuebing Xu is also associate editor for JAOCS, ad hoc reviewer for more than 150 papers and members of editorial board for journals including EJLST, Open Biotechnology, etc. He has authored more than 200 publications and over 30 book chapters in lipid-related researches.

Professor Bhesh Bhandari has been associated with the University of Queensland for the last 30 years. His research and teaching areas include food materials science, processing, physical and engineering properties of foods. Prof Bhandari has published three co-edited books and more than 500 book chapters and research papers. His publications have been cited more than 36000 times (Google scholar) and is recognised as one of the leading researchers globally in glass transition and encapsulation technologies in food science discipline. He has patented two significant technologies, a continuous microgel particle formation device for encapsulation of food and pharmaceuticals and a technology to produce ethylene powder by applying materials science approach. He has currently several projects on 3D food printing.