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About the Editors
Xiaofeng Dai is currently working as the Group Leader of the Crop Fungi Disease
in Institute of Plant Protection and The Director General of Feed Research Institute,
CAAS (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences), and took charge The Director
General of Institute of Food Science and Technology, CAAS (2010 October–2019
May). He supervised Doctoral students, has made outstanding contributions:
national agricultural scientific research talents, extinguish young expert appointed
by the Ministry of Agriculture of The People’s Republic of China, recipient of the
special allowance from the State Council, chief scientist of team of the national
agricultural science and technology innovation project, leading talent of the
Academy of Agricultural Sciences and many more. Dr. Dai had presided over more
than 20 national issues, won 4 of National Science and Technology Awards, 6
Provincial Science and Technology Awards, the National “Five-year” Science and
Technology Major Achievements Award, “National Five-year Science and
Technology Scientist” Award from the state council and contribution awards of
“national medium and long-term planning of science and technology strategy”, and
published more than 200 papers. His research team had been awarded as “outstanding scientific research innovation team of Ministry of Agriculture”.
Dr. Minaxi Sharma is currently working as ERA Chair VALORTECH-Senior
Research Scientist, Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU), Tartu, Estonia.
Before joining EMU- Estonia, she worked as Assistant Professor for two years with
teaching and research responsibilities, in the Department of Food Technology,
Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. She obtained her doctorate degree in Dairy Chemistry from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal
(India). She has 9+ years of extensive experience in the research area of: applications of antimicrobial nanoencapsulation of plant essential oils in dairy foods for the
enhancement of shelf life (doctoral), probiotic-Indian dairy products (postdoctoral)
and in the area of development of functional foods using micro/nano-colloidal
delivery systems of potential plant bioactive components (postdoctoral). She is a
well-recognized researcher has Web of Science Researcher ID: L-9405-2019;
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6493-5217. She is in editorial board of few
About the Editors
Xiaofeng Dai is currently working as the Group Leader of the Crop Fungi Disease
in Institute of Plant Protection and The Director General of Feed Research Institute,
CAAS (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences), and took charge The Director
General of Institute of Food Science and Technology, CAAS (2010 October–2019
May). He supervised Doctoral students, has made outstanding contributions:
national agricultural scientific research talents, extinguish young expert appointed
by the Ministry of Agriculture of The People’s Republic of China, recipient of the
special allowance from the State Council, chief scientist of team of the national
agricultural science and technology innovation project, leading talent of the
Academy of Agricultural Sciences and many more. Dr. Dai had presided over more
than 20 national issues, won 4 of National Science and Technology Awards, 6
Provincial Science and Technology Awards, the National “Five-year” Science and
Technology Major Achievements Award, “National Five-year Science and
Technology Scientist” Award from the state council and contribution awards of
“national medium and long-term planning of science and technology strategy”, and
published more than 200 papers. His research team had been awarded as “outstanding scientific research innovation team of Ministry of Agriculture”.
Dr. Minaxi Sharma is currently working as ERA Chair VALORTECH-Senior
Research Scientist, Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU), Tartu, Estonia.
Before joining EMU- Estonia, she worked as Assistant Professor for two years with
teaching and research responsibilities, in the Department of Food Technology,
Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. She obtained her doctorate degree in Dairy Chemistry from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal
(India). She has 9+ years of extensive experience in the research area of: applications of antimicrobial nanoencapsulation of plant essential oils in dairy foods for the
enhancement of shelf life (doctoral), probiotic-Indian dairy products (postdoctoral)
and in the area of development of functional foods using micro/nano-colloidal
delivery systems of potential plant bioactive components (postdoctoral). She is a
well-recognized researcher has Web of Science Researcher ID: L-9405-2019;
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6493-5217. She is in editorial board of few