Prof. Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland (Australia), in 2007. Now, he is a

full-time Prof. in GUASNR (Iran) and part-time Prof. in SAAS (China).

He has published more than 850 papers in International Journals (h-index=124

in Scopus and 136 in Google Scholar) and 110 book chapters/40 books with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. Selected achievements:

- One of the world's highly cited researchers (1% top scientists) by Scopus (Elsevier)

- One of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology

- One of the world's highly cited researchers (HCR; 0.1% top scientists) by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science)

- A top reviewer in the field of agricultural and biological sciences by Publons.

Katarzyna Samborska received her PhD in Food Technology (2004) from Warsaw University of Live Sciences in Poland. In 2003-2004 she was a Marie Curie scholar at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. She has been working on spray drying of sugar-rich foods and enzymes for the past 20 years. She has published more than 80 papers in top-ranked international food science journals (h-index=28 in Scopus), is the main author of two patents related to the production of honey powder, and was the co-editor of a special issue in Drying Technology devoted to spray drying for the retention of food bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals. She is one of the world's highly cited researchers (2% top scientists) by Clarivate Analytics (2024, 2025).