Festus Akinnifesi
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Agroforestry, agronomy, soil fertility, horticulture, sustainable agriculture

Lithourgidis Anastasios
Department of Agronomy, Aristotle University Farm of Thessaloniki, Thermi, Greece
Breeding for diseases resistant, agronomy and evaluation of varieties of major

Muhuddin Anwar
NSW Department of Primary industries, Graham Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Mixed-farming systems modelling, management of climate risks including efficiencies in agricultural production systems, climate change adaptation

Nirit Bernstein
Institute of Soil Water and Environmental Sciences, Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel
Medical cannabis, plant stress physiology, plant nutrition, water footprint of Israel's agriculture

Antonio Bevilacqua
Department of the Science of Agriculture, Food and Environment (SAFE), University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Antifungal activity, antimicrobial activity, biomass production, central composite design, fatty acid, heat treatment, kinetics, lactic acid bacteria, modified atmosphere, organic acid, response surface methodology, shelf life, storage temperature, total coliform, lactobacillus plantarum

Simone Blanc
Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Largo Braccini, Grugliasco (TO), Italy                
Agricultural economics, sustainability, rural development, life cycle costing, life cycle assessment, sustainable consumption and production, value chain, marketing, innovation

Flavio Boccia
Department of Economic and Legal Studies, “Parthenope” University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Corporate social responsibility, international marketing, consumer behaviour, food, genetically modified organisms

Valeria Borsellino
Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Economics and policy of Mediterranean agricultural production (olive growing, citrus growing, viticulture, fruit growing, horticulture and nursery gardening), the economics and policy of the fisheries sector, the sustainable development of the wine sector, and rural development policies, land market, ICT and logistics of agro-food production, web marketing, business innovations and strategies

Bertram Brenig
Institute of Veterinary Medicine, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Structural and functional analysis of mammalian genes and genomes, the cause of different important genetic traits and defects in domestic animals

Pawel Bryla
Department of International Marketing and Retailing, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Consumer behavior, food marketing, organic food, regional food, country-of-origin effect, consumer ethnocentrism, health claims, nutrition claims

Jose de Sousa Camara
Centro de Química da Madeira (CQM), Universidade da Madeira, Campus da Penteada, Funchal, Portugal
Mass spectrometry, food bioactives, metabolomics, cancer, biomarkers

Maurizio Canavari
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Eeconomics, marketing, value chain, consumer, innovation, quality management

Sergio Capareda
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Bioenergy and biofuels conversion, pyrolysis and gasification, machine design and waste management, environmental air quality, renewable energy

Gaetano Chinnici
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Catania, Italy
wine, olive oil and food marketing, consumer behaviour and consumers' willingness to pay

Carlos Manuel Correia
Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Integrated monitoring of climate and environmental impacts, sustainability in agri-food and forestry ecosystems, innovative technologies and processes, valorisation of bio-based products and and co-products

Dario Donno
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Phytochemicals, HPLC, food chemistry, medicinal plants, herbal preparations, chromatography, antioxidants, analytical strategies, biodiversity, sustainability

Vincent Duffy
School of Industrial Engineering, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Digital human modeling, safety engineering, work methods and measurement, ergonomics

Edward Durner
Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences – Foran Hall, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA
Agricultural plant science, horticulture, floral biology

Antonio Elia
Department of the Science of Agriculture, Food and Environment (SAFE), University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Horticulture and floriculture

Vittorio Farina
Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Fruit quality physiology, postharvest physiology, fruit tree varietal renewal and tree physiology

Mohammed Gagaoua
PEGASE, INRAE, Institut Agro, 35590 Saint-Gilles, France
OMICs, proteomics, muscle and meat biochemistry, biomarkers of meat quality, meat tenderization, rearing practices and meat quality

Pedro Dinis Gaspar
Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
Refrigeration, energy efficiency, robotics, artificial intelligence, ICT, traceability

Luciano Gutierrez
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Price analysis, panel econometrics, agricultural productivity, regional integration

David Hannaway
Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Forage, sustainable agriculture, plant physiology, crop production, soil fertility, climate change

Alejandro Hernández
Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Recursos Agrarios (INURA), Animal production and Food Science, University of Extremadura, Spain
Food microbiology, postharvest, food quality (primarily paprika), food fraud and adulteration, molecular identification of microbes - Food fraud and adulteration

Klein Ileleji
Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering,  Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Bioenergy, energy crops, food process engineering

Marzia Ingrassia
Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Agriculture economics and marketing, economic aspects of food products chain, consumer acceptance of fresh fruit and fresh-cuts

Edward Kick
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Environment, social change, wastewater treatment, water analysis

Yuji Kishima
Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan
Plant breeding, rice, cold response, anther culture, interspecific hybrid, polyploidy, Antirrhinum, transposon

Phoebe Koundouri
Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens, Greece
Environmental and resource economics, applied micro-econometrics, microeconomic modelling: optimal control and game theory, agricultural economics, public economics

Kangshun Li
Professor of School of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, image recognition, software engineering, network communication, evolutionary computation，big data modeling and neural network

Yinghui Li
Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Soybean, germplasms, gene discovery

Lena Lidfors
Department of Animal Environment and Health, Section of Anthrozoology and Applied Ethology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skara, Sweden
Dairy science, cattle, the behaviour of laboratory animals

Fernando Lidon
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Food technology, food storage, plant biochemistry, photosynthesis

Ilaria Marotti
Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Medicinal and aromatic plants, food crops, resilient crops, agrobiodiversity, sustainable cropping systems, organic farming, natural products, phytochemicals, nutraceuticals, essential oils, bioactivity assays, bioactive compounds

Joe Mari Maja
Edisto Research and Education Center, Clemson University, Blackville, USA
Agriculture, robotics, automation, UAV, spectral, machine learning/AI

Paolo Merante
Department of Crop Science – DNPW, Division of Tropical Plant Production and AgriculturalSystems Modelling (TROPAGS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Crop modelling, soil carbon storage and soil organic matter, conservation agriculture

Paul Mitchell
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
Production economics, risk management, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), resistance management, sustainability

Eiji Nawata
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Ecophysiology of tropical crops, Farming system analysis, Crop evolution, Agricultural environment

Brendan Niemira
Food Safety & Intervention Technologies Research Unit, USDA-ARS Eastern Regional Research Center, Wyndmoor, USA
Microbial food safety, innovative nonthermal food processing

Delia Julieta Valles-Rosales
Department of Industrial Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
Manufacturing and sustainable systems, systems modeling for waste and energy minimization, additive manufacturing

Francielo Vendruscolo
College of Agronomy, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
Bioprocess, state solid fermentation, food engineering, alcoholic beverages

Steven Van Passel
Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Engineering Management, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
Agricultural economics, environmental economics, ecological economics, climate change economics

José Alberto Cardoso Pereira
Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), School of Agriculture, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Campus Sta Apolónia, Bragança, Portugal
Olive, bioactive properties, quality of products with vegetal origin, crop protection system

Antonio M. Peres
Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Bragança, Portugal
Electronic tongues, electronic noses, aptasensors, chemometrics, bioactive compounds, olive oil

Michele Pisante
Faculty of Bioscience and Technology for Agriculture Food and Environment, University of Teramo, Italy
Conservation agriculture, digital agriculture, ecosystem services, plant stress, precision farming, sustainable crop production intensification 

Beneditct C. Posadas
Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA
Horticulture economics and marketing, seafood economics and marketing, economic impacts of marine debris, softshell blue crab pond growout, producing surimi from catfish by-products

Giuseppe Pulighe
CREA Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, Rome, Italy
Bioenergy, marginal lands, geoinformation, sustainable cropping systems, eco-hydrological modelling

Wenping Qiu
Center for Grapevine Biotechnology, William H. Darr School of Agriculture, Missouri State University at Mountain Grove, Mountain Grove, USA
Genetic and molecular mechanism of grapevine’s defense against pathogens, characterization of new grapevine viruses

Morten Rye
Akvaforsk Genetics Center AS, Sunndalsøra, Norway
Animal science (fish research), aquaculture, genetic analysis, animal breeding, animal genetics, quantitative genetics, marker assisted selection, aquaculture genetics

Gabriele Scozzafava
Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari, Ambientali e Forestali, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Piazzale delle Cascine, Firenze, Italy
Agricultural economics, organic foods, willingness to pay, farmers' markets, wine tourism

Alessandro Scuderi
Department of Agricultural Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Agri-food safety economics, marketing management, consumer Economics

Tatsuhiko Shiraiwa
Laboratory of Crop Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Plant breeding, abiotic stress tolerance, crop physiology, crop improvement, photosynthesis, drought, stress physiology, rice

Jorge da Silva
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Sugarcane breeding and genetics

Shavannor M. Smith
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Plant-pathogen interactions with a focus on the structure and evolution of disease resistance loci, understanding the biological processes for disease resistance and the genetic improvement of crop plants for disease resistance

Christos Soukoulis
Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Food biopolymers, functional foods, food colloids, encapsulation, food bioactives

Per Stålnacke
NIBIO – Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway
Environmental science, irrigation and water management, water science, hydrology

Vita Di Stefano
Department of Biological, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Phenolic compounds analysis, agro-food by-product utilization, fortified food, LC-MS analysis, olive oil composition, nutraceuticals

Alfredo Teixeira
Departamento Ciência Animal, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
Animal production, dairy science, meat science and technology, meat quality

Paula  Teixeira
Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
Biotechnology, food chemistry, food processing, Food microbiology and safety, food microbiology, food biotechnology

Giuseppe Timpanaro
Department of Agriculture Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Agricultural economics and evaluation, EU agri-food policies, rural development policies, quality production, food security and sustainability, evaluation of local agri-food systems, agri-food marketing and consumption analysis

Tullia Gallina Toschi
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Sensory and instrumental methods for verifying food authenticity, quality and preferences; vegetable oils and fats (olive oil); food innovation, re-use of by-products, industrial symbiosis

Moreno Toselli
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Fruit trees, mineral nutrition, organic fertilizers, sustainable horticulture, fruit quality, nitrogen root uptake, organic farming

Alan K. Watson
Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Non chemical means to control weeds

Justus Wesseler
Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group (AEP), Department of Social Science, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherland
Bioeconomy economics and policies, EU agriculture policy, economics of regulation, decision making under uncertainty and irreversibility, real option theory

Cornelia Witthöft
Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
Food and nutrition

Joan Wu
Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Puyallup Research and Extension Center, Washington State University, Pullman, USA
Hydrology, modeling, GIS application

Attila Yazar
Department of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey
Irrigation and water management, environmental impact assessment, climate change, plant physiology, crop production, soil and water conservation

Longxi Yu
USDA-ARS, Plant Germplasm Introduction and Testing Research, Prosser, USA
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of resistance to soil-borne diseases and stem nematode in alfalfa using genotyping by sequencing (GBS); drought and salt tolerance, and enhanced water use efficiency are also investigated in his group using forward reverse genetics; marker-assisted breeding to develop improved forage varieties with resistance to disease and abiotic stresses