Fungi in Sustainable Food Production / Fungal Biology (PDF)

Xiaofeng Dai is currently working as the Director general of The Feed Research Institute, CAAS (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) and took charge The Director general of the Institute of Food Science and Technology, CAAS (2010 Octerber - 2019 May). He supervised Doctoral students, has made outstanding contributions: national agricultural scientific research talents, extinguish young expert appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture of The People's Republic of China, recipient of the special allowance from the State Council, chief scientist of team of the national agricultural science and technology innovation project, leading talent of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and many more. Dr. Dai had presided over more than 20 national issues, won 4 of National Science and Technology Awards, 6 Provincial Science and Technology Awards, the National "Five-year" Science and Technology Major Achievements Award, "National Five-year Science and Technology Scientist" Award fromthe state council and contribution awards of "national medium and long-term planning of science and technology strategy", and published more than 200 papers. His research team had been awarded as "outstanding scientific research innovation team of Ministry of Agriculture ".




Dr. Minaxi Sharma is currently working as ERA Chair VALORTECH-Senior Research Scientist, Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU), Tartu, Estonia. Before joining EMU- Estonia, she worked as Assistant Professor for two years with teaching and research responsibilities, in the Department of Food Technology, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. She obtained her doctorate degree in Dairy Chemistry from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal (India). She has 9+ years of extensive experience in the research area of: applications of antimicrobial nanoencapsulation of plant essential oils in dairy foods for the enhancement of shelf life (doctoral), probiotic-Indian dairy products