Tilahun Seyoum Workneh Editor

Daniel Ingo Hefft is an engineer working at the University of Birmingham within the Advanced Measurements for Industrial Application research group. He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Agricultural Engineers, has a master’s degree from the University of Reading (UK) and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Applied Sciences Ostwestfalen-Lippe (Germany). He is also a long serving member of the Association of German Food Technologists (GDL. e.V.) and founding member of a food engineering special interest group in the Institution of Agricultural Engineers. Daniel worked for leading, multinational food manufacturers, both in the UK and Germany. He has years of practical industry experience in process development, quality assurance and product development. His current projects focus on the application of passive acoustic emission sensing techniques to characterize complex fluids as well as developing a highly affordable technology to measure live rheology. Dr Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji is presently a faculty member and lecturer at the Microbiology Department, Faculty of Sciences, Edo State University Uzairue (EDSU), Edo State, Nigeria. He was formally the Acting Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, the Head of department of Microbiology, Sub Dean for Faculty of Science and currently the Chairman Grant Committee and the Ag Dean for Faculty of Science, at EDSU. He is a Visiting Professor and the Executive Director for the Center of Biotechnology, Precious Cornerstone University, Ibadan, University. He has won several scientific awards and grants from renowned academic bodies like Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India, Department of Biotechnology (DBT) India, The World Academy of Science (TWAS) Italy, Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NPF) Netherlands, The Agency for International Development Cooperation; Israel, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK among many others. Dr Adetunji was ranked among the top 20th position among 500 prolific authors in Nigeria between 2019 till date by SciVal/SCOPUS. He was recently appointed as the President and Chairman Governing Council of the Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network Society. He was recently appointed as the Director for International Affiliation and Training Centre for Environmental and Public Health, Research and Development, Zaria. He is an editorial board member of many international journals and serves as a reviewer to many double-blind peer review journals like Elsevier etc. Dr Adetunji is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, Biotechnology Society of Nigeria, and Nigerian Society for Microbiology, and he is presently the General/Executive Secretary of Nigerian Young Academy. He is the president and founder of the Nigerian Post-Harvest and Food Biotechnology Society. Tilahun Seyoum Workneh is an Associate Professor at the Agricultural Engineering Discipline. He has graduated with B.Sc. Degree in Agricultural Engineering, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Alemaya University, Ethiopia and holds a PhD, Food Science, Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology, The University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has a diverse range of research interests such as: Heat and Mass Transfer, Hybrid Drying Technology and Food Quality and Food Safety. Duncan Onyango Mbuge holds a Ph.D. Environmental and Bio-systems Engineering, University of Nairobi. He is Chairman of the Department of Environmental and Biosystems Engineering. He is also a Senior Lecturer, Department of Environmental and Biosystems Engineering (March 2012 – Present) - Lecturing and Research in Power and Machinery, Process and Food Engineering, Materials Science, Environmental management and conservation in construction, Renewable Energy, Infrastructure Engineering including greenhouse design, Construction materials and workshop techniques.