We are pleased to confirm the keynote speakers and talks
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Heinz W. Siesler
Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Heinz Siesler is an Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, with expertise in vibrational spectroscopy for chemical research, analysis and process control. He has written 240+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and 4 books, and presented 350+ lectures worldwide. Since 2012 he is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and he received several NIR spectroscopy awards (1994 EAS, 2000 Thomas Hirschfeld/PITTCON, 2003 Buechi). He also worked as guest professor at the Ecole Superieure (Paris, France), Kwansei Gakuin University (Sanda, Japan), and the University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria).
Prior to his academic position he gained industrial experience in molecular spectroscopy and thermal analysis in the R&D Department of Bayer AG, Germany. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria).
The test and application of miniaturized handheld vibrational spectrometers is a special research focus over the last ten years.
Talk Title (KEYNOTE SESSION 30.09.2021)
On-Site Quality Control and Protection against Product Counterfeiting by Handheld Near-Infrared Spectrometers: Anytime, Anywhere by Anyone
Moon Kim
Research Leader/Research Physicist Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Lab.Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Dr. Kim joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in 1999. Prior to joining ARS in 1999, he held positions at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD for more than 10 years. While working full time at NASA, he also earned advanced degrees at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. He is the Research Leader of the Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory where he directs a multidisciplinary team of researchers, collaborating ARS laboratories, cooperating universities, and other government agencies. He is responsible for developing innovative sensing methodologies and technologies to address food safety concerns for food production, to aid in reducing food safety risks in food processing. He also leads the development of novel instruments and sensing technologies, and transformation of these novel technologies into practical instrumentation for scientific and industrial implementations. He has authored/coauthored more than 450 scientific publications, including over 240 peer reviewed journal articles, 12 U.S. patents, and 9 book chapters, and has received more than 100 invitations for presentations, consultations, and collaborations. Since 2009, he has served as the chair of the Sensing for Agriculture and Food Quality and Safety Conference, SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering Symposium).
Talk title (KEYNOTE SESSION 30.09.2021)
Line-scan multimodal spectral imaging for food safety and quality applications
Andreas Niemoeller
Bruker Optik | Applied Spectroscopy, Business Unit Manager - Food Analysis Solutions
Talk Title (30.09.2021)
Modern developments of FT-NIR and miniaturized MEMS based systems
Martin Lagerholm
PerkinElmer | Application Manager at Perten
Application manager at Perten / PerkinElmer since 2014. Worked with food application since 1998 with a focus on NIR and Chemometrics. Ph.D. in Theoretical physics centered around Artificial Neural Networks 1994-1998. https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinlagerholm1968
Talk Title (30.09.2021)
Balancing between robustness and accuracy, challenges and examples for NIR/MIR calibrations
Michele Suman
Barilla | Advanced Research Labs Food Safety & Authenticity Research Manager
Michele Suman was born in Rovigo, Italy, in 1973. He is married and with two children. Michele obtained his Analytical Chemistry Degree, Summa Cum Laude, at University of Ferrara in 1997.
He won the National Prize for Young Researchers promoted by the Italian Chemistry Federation (Federchimica) in 1998.
Then he took a master's degree in 1998 (Master in Science, Technology and Management from University of Ferrara, working at the same time at the "Natta Research Center" of Shell-Montell Polyolefins) and a doctorate in 2005 (PhD in Science and Technology of Innovative Materials from University of Parma), landing the role of Food Safety & Authenticity Research Manager in Barilla Spa company in 2003.
Here he has been working in an international context with public and private research centers\organizations on research projects within the field of food chemistry, food safety-qualityauthenticity, food contact materials, sensing and mass spectrometry applications for food products.
He is Adjunct Professor of AgriFood Authenticity at Catholic University Sacred Heart – Milan/Piacenza. He is Chair of the Italian National Normative Organization (UNI) Food Authenticity Working Group member of working groups for Biotoxins-Processing Contaminants-Food Authenticity in European Committee for Standardization (CEN), Chair of the ILSI Process Related Compounds & Natural Toxins Task Force; Coordinator of Quality-Food Safety Pillar - Italian National Cluster Agrifood Scientific Board, member of the Board of Mass Spectrometry Division – Italian Chemistry Society from 2014 to 2019, member of the Scientific Board of Italian Chemistry Society – Food Chemistry Inter-divisional
Group; editorial boards of important peer-reviewed journals (World Mycotoxin Journal, Food Additives and Contaminants,…).
He has been involved in various National/European Funded Projects and presently he is WP Leader in the EU-FP7 FoodIntegrity Project and in the EU-H2020 MyToolBox projects. He has developed experience in academic teaching activities, masters\PhD projects supervision, coordination/chairmanship of international conferences (Recent Advances in Food Analysis, World Mycotoxins Forum, FoodIntegrity, MS Food Day, Rapid Methods Europe, International Mass Spectrometry Conference…).
Google Scholar H-index 27 & i10-index 55, Scopus H-index 23, Research Gate index 37. His scientific production is documented by 5 book chapters, 2 books edited, 158 contributions at national and international conferences and 110 papers in international ISI journals.
Talk Title (30.09.2021)
Hazelnut and apple products traceability through Near Infrared spectroscopy approach
Rocio Dona Garcia
Aunir | NIR application Manager, UK
I have got MSc in Chemistry by University of Seville and MSc in “Engineering and Management of the Agri-food Chain” by University of Cordoba. Apart from that I have assisted to many different NIR and chemometrics training courses held by CraW (Belgium), University of Copenhagen and University of Cordoba.
I have been working for Aunir since 2009 as NIR application manager. At Aunir we work with all different NIR manufacturers and develop NIR calibrations in all type of NIR chemometrics software packages, for the instrument’s end users, accordingly to their business’s needs.
My primary work is liaising with customers to understand their needs, develop calibrations, installations, training and follow up.
My broad experience in NIR includes instruments cloning, assessment of the different systems in the market, feasibility studies for many different parameters and products.
Talk Title (30.09.2021)
Investigating how wavelength ranges affect calibration performance in portable NIR equipment
Deolinda Silva
PortugalFoods
Food Engineer by Faculty of Biotecnology of Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Incentives Manager, analysis and technical monitoring of R&D projects at Portuguese National Innovation Agency (ANI) between 2004 and 2017. Experience in University-Corporate interface and in knowledge and technology transfer and valorization, with emphasis on Agrifood sector.
Executive Director at PortugalFoods, a private non-profit association (and leader entity of the Portuguese Agrofood Cluster).
PortugalFoods is collaborative ecosystem, composed by food and beverage companies, universities and R&D centres. Serving as a platform where its members establish win-win relationships, PortugalFoods has the mission of boosting agrifood companies’ competitiveness, through innovation and internationalization.
Talk Title (30.09.2021)
Tech innovation in Portuguese agrifood sector
