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Award. He has implemented various agronomic applications, at the Nagata Agric. Research Institute,
Japan, 2000–2003, and after that in France, in particular in viticulture, market gardening and oyster
farming.
Peter Stolz
As an analytical chemist, Dr Peter Stolz is leading the institute KWALIS Qualitätsforschung, in
Dipperz, Germany. He studied chemistry at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, from 1978 to
1986, and obtained his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the chemistry department of the University of
Oldenburg, Germany, in 1989. He worked at the Bremer Umweltinstitut, Germany, where his scientifc and fnancial chairmanship lasted for 9 years. His cooperation and collaboration in the years
1998–2010 with Dr Jürgen Strube, who established the institute KWALIS, empowered him to continue the scientifc work of Jürgen Strube and combine it with the knowledge of chemistry and the
competence to work with modern analytical techniques. His concern to view food not only as the
sum of single chemical substances, but as a whole that is integrated into life processes, has resulted
in, among other things, the book Food Mediates Life (German: Lebensmittel vermitteln Leben), and
this interest is present in all of his scientifc activities (https://www.kwalis.de/).
Jack Tuszyński
Prof Tuszyński obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics in 1983 from the University
of Calgary. From 1983 to 1988, he was a faculty member at the Department of Physics of the
Memorial University of Newfoundland. He moved to the University of Alberta in 1988 as an assistant professor; between 1990 and 1993, he was an associate professor, and then full professor at the
Department of Physics until now. Between 2005 and 2020, he held the prestigious Allard Chair in
Experimental Oncology at the Cross Cancer Institute. He was also a Fellow of the National Institute
for Nanotechnology of Canada. Dr Tuszyński held visiting professorship and research positions in
China, Germany, France, Israel, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland. He has published over 500
peer-reviewed journal papers and 12 books. He delivered almost 400 scientifc talks at conferences
on fve continents, half of which were invited presentations. He submitted 21 patent applications
and obtained 4 patents in the USA, South Korea, Japan and Singapore. His research has been supported by over 100 research grants from Canadian, US and European funding agencies. He is on the
editorial board of almost 30 international journals including the Journal of Biological Physics. He
is an Associate Editor of The Frontiers Collection at Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. The major thrust
of his computational biophysics group is in silico drug design for cancer chemotherapy applications.
Medardo Ángel Ulloa Enríquez
Medardo Ulloa Enríquez is a works engineer at the Equinoccial Technology University, Ecuador. He
holds a Master’s in Production Management and a Diploma in Didactics of Higher Education both
from the Technical University of Cotopaxi, Ecuador. He also has a PhD in Technical Sciences from
Oscar Lucero Moya, Holguín, Cuba. Director of productive projects at the Technical University of
Cotopaxi (Ecuador), he has published more than 15 scientifc articles and has tutored undergraduate
and masters’ theses. His research is based on the risks of work, quality systems and environmental
aspects in different areas of research and production.
Rovier Verdi
As a rice grower’s son, Rovier Verdi has worked his whole life with agriculture. After his graduation in agronomy, from 2010 to 2015 at the Catarinense Federal Institute of Education, Science and
Technology, Rio do Sul, Brazil, he became interested in agroecology and got in contact for the frst time
with homeopathy for plants. There he studied homeopathy applied to medicinal plants. During 2016
and 2018, he did a master’s degree in plant production at the Agroveterinary Science Centre of the Santa
Catarina State University, Brazil (CAV/UDESC), working with the propagation of a Brazilian native
medicinal plant (Poiretia latifolia) and homeopathy. Since then, he has been a member of the Laboratory
Biography of Contributors
Award. He has implemented various agronomic applications, at the Nagata Agric. Research Institute,
Japan, 2000–2003, and after that in France, in particular in viticulture, market gardening and oyster
farming.
Peter Stolz
As an analytical chemist, Dr Peter Stolz is leading the institute KWALIS Qualitätsforschung, in
Dipperz, Germany. He studied chemistry at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, from 1978 to
1986, and obtained his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the chemistry department of the University of
Oldenburg, Germany, in 1989. He worked at the Bremer Umweltinstitut, Germany, where his scientifc and fnancial chairmanship lasted for 9 years. His cooperation and collaboration in the years
1998–2010 with Dr Jürgen Strube, who established the institute KWALIS, empowered him to continue the scientifc work of Jürgen Strube and combine it with the knowledge of chemistry and the
competence to work with modern analytical techniques. His concern to view food not only as the
sum of single chemical substances, but as a whole that is integrated into life processes, has resulted
in, among other things, the book Food Mediates Life (German: Lebensmittel vermitteln Leben), and
this interest is present in all of his scientifc activities (https://www.kwalis.de/).
Jack Tuszyński
Prof Tuszyński obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics in 1983 from the University
of Calgary. From 1983 to 1988, he was a faculty member at the Department of Physics of the
Memorial University of Newfoundland. He moved to the University of Alberta in 1988 as an assistant professor; between 1990 and 1993, he was an associate professor, and then full professor at the
Department of Physics until now. Between 2005 and 2020, he held the prestigious Allard Chair in
Experimental Oncology at the Cross Cancer Institute. He was also a Fellow of the National Institute
for Nanotechnology of Canada. Dr Tuszyński held visiting professorship and research positions in
China, Germany, France, Israel, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland. He has published over 500
peer-reviewed journal papers and 12 books. He delivered almost 400 scientifc talks at conferences
on fve continents, half of which were invited presentations. He submitted 21 patent applications
and obtained 4 patents in the USA, South Korea, Japan and Singapore. His research has been supported by over 100 research grants from Canadian, US and European funding agencies. He is on the
editorial board of almost 30 international journals including the Journal of Biological Physics. He
is an Associate Editor of The Frontiers Collection at Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. The major thrust
of his computational biophysics group is in silico drug design for cancer chemotherapy applications.
Medardo Ángel Ulloa Enríquez
Medardo Ulloa Enríquez is a works engineer at the Equinoccial Technology University, Ecuador. He
holds a Master’s in Production Management and a Diploma in Didactics of Higher Education both
from the Technical University of Cotopaxi, Ecuador. He also has a PhD in Technical Sciences from
Oscar Lucero Moya, Holguín, Cuba. Director of productive projects at the Technical University of
Cotopaxi (Ecuador), he has published more than 15 scientifc articles and has tutored undergraduate
and masters’ theses. His research is based on the risks of work, quality systems and environmental
aspects in different areas of research and production.
Rovier Verdi
As a rice grower’s son, Rovier Verdi has worked his whole life with agriculture. After his graduation in agronomy, from 2010 to 2015 at the Catarinense Federal Institute of Education, Science and
Technology, Rio do Sul, Brazil, he became interested in agroecology and got in contact for the frst time
with homeopathy for plants. There he studied homeopathy applied to medicinal plants. During 2016
and 2018, he did a master’s degree in plant production at the Agroveterinary Science Centre of the Santa
Catarina State University, Brazil (CAV/UDESC), working with the propagation of a Brazilian native
medicinal plant (Poiretia latifolia) and homeopathy. Since then, he has been a member of the Laboratory