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IUFoST 2026 World Food Congress – WHERE FOOD SCIENCE MEETS THE FUTURE

Congress Advisory Committee

  Congress scientific themes: https://iufost.org/themes/
Name Institution
Ryszard Amarowicz Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Sun Baoguo Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor, Beijing Technology and Business University, CIFST President
V.M. Balasubramaniam Koehler-Ayres Professor of Food Processing: Sustainable Food Manufacturing Systems, University of Georgia, USA  
Zhen-You Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong
Marco Dalla Rosa Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy
Ferruh Erdogdu Professor of Food Process Engineering, Computational Food Processing Group, Department of Food Engineering, Ankara University, Turkey
Lotis Francisco Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Home Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman; President, Philippine Association of Food Technologists, Inc. (PAFT), Philippines
Shi Hanping Founding Chair, Department of Clinical Nutrition, Capital Medical University, China
Purwiyatno Hariyadi Professor, Dept of Food Science & Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, IPB University (Bogor Agricultural University); Senior Scientist, SEAFAST Center, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia
Jeya Henry Senior Advisor, Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health, Singapore
Anne-Marie Hermansson Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Milan Houska Senior Researcher, Czech Agro-food Centre (CARC), Department of Food Science, Prague, Czech Republic
Amin Ismail University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Bo Jiang Jiangnan University, China
Mukund V Karwe Distinguished Professor Food Engineering, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, USA
John Kinyuru College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, Kenya
Suzana Caetano da Silva Lannes School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Jiang Lianzhou Chief Professor, Northeast Agricultural University, China
Keshun Liu U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, USA
Xie Mingyong  Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, China
Kazuo Miyashita Hokkaido Bunkyo University, Japan
John Muyonga Professor of Food Science, Makerere University, Uganda
Keshavan Niranjan Prof. of Bioprocessing, University of Reading, UK
Li Ning Chief expert of China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, China
Obadina Adewale Olusegun Association of African Universities (AAU), Accra, Ghana
Jamuna Prakash Professor, Dept. of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Mysore, India
George Ooko Abong Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Technology; Director (Ag) Advancement & Institutional Development, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Bolanie Otegbayo Department of Food Science and Technology, Bowen University, Nigeria
Jairo Romero IAFoST Fellow, Colombia
Kenji Sato Kyoto University, Japan
Barbara Schneeman Prof. Emer. Nutrition, UC Davis, USA
Susana Socolovsky ALACCTA – AATA, Argentina
Petras Rimantas Venkutonis Kaunas University Technology, Lithuania
Erich Windhab Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH); Chair, Food Technology Platform @ Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW), Switzerland
Yuan Li College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing; Section Chief Precision Nutrition, Frontier Technology Research Institute of China Agricultural University Shenzhen, China

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