Gaurav Rajauria, M.Sc., Ph.D., MRSC, is a Lecturer in Bioeconomy at the Munster Technological University, Ireland. His primary research interest aims at mining and characterizing functional ingredients from underutilized marine resources and agri-food waste/side streams. He is exploring a number of emerging technologies for pre-treatment and extraction purposes and establishing bioactive based biorefineries from underutilized biomass. His research also focuses on improving the food quality, food security and environmental sustainability by applying nutrition intervention strategies for improving health. He has been principal investigator and collaborator of national and European grants, He has extensively published in his area of research, holds patents, have edited books and journals and advises/supervises a number of masters, PhD, and post-doctoral researchers across multiple research projects. He is an elected member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), UK and management committee member of European COST Action programme.
Brijesh K Tiwari, M.Sc., Ph.D., FIFST, FRSC is a principal research officer at TEAGASC and adjunct Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland. Previously he was a Research Professor @ Food Research Center; Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; He has been an external research project evaluator for Research Council of Norway and External evaluator for Norwegian Strategic Research Programme, Norway; Executive Agency for Higher Education and Research, Development and Innovation. Dr. Tiwari does extensive research all around the world, has won many awards, is an editorial board member and a keynote speaker at international conferences with over 175 peer-reviewed research publications and over 100 book chapters. He has also co-edited 10 books and is a book series editor for IFST Advances in Food Science book series. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Food Processing and Preservation.