Invited speakers
Plenary Speakers
Alejandro Cifuentes
Spain
Alejandro Cifuentes is a Full Research Professor at the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) in Madrid, Head of the Laboratory of Foodomics and Director of the Metabolomics Platform (International Excellence Campus CSIC + University Autonoma of Madrid) ... read more
Simon Kelly
IAEA
Is it really Organic? What do stable isotope and complementary techniques have to offer?
Dr Simon Kelly is a Food Safety Specialist in the United Nations Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria ... read more
Nicola Pirrone
Italy
Future perspectives in using Earth Observation technologies for a sustainable Agriculture in Europe.
Nicola Pirrone holds the position of Research Director at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and Adjunct Professor at School of Public Health of the University of Michigan ... read more
Invited speakers
Urška Blaznik
Slovenia
Curriculum vitae: 1988-1993 BSc Chemistry (University of Ljubljana), 2010-2015 PhD Biomedicine (medical faculty, University of Ljubljana). Employment: 1993-2006 Regional Institute of Public Health Kranj, 2006 on National Institute of Public Health, Environmental Health and Analysis and Development of Health ... read more
Luana Bontempo
Italy
Compound -specific analysis for the verification of food authenticity
Luana Bontempo is a researcher at Fondazione Edmund Mach (Italy) where she is currently the Head of Traceability Unit ... read more
Olivier Donard
France
Novel analytical analytical strategies using non-traditional isotopic and multi-isotopic dilution signatures for enhanced geographical food traceabilities.
Dr. Olivier F.X. Donard is a research director at the french CNRS (Directeur de Recherche Classe Exceptionelle now “Emeritus”). ... read more
Tome Eftimov
Slovenia
Towards AI-driven Food Science and Society: Opportunities and Challenges
Tome Eftimov is a senior researcher at the Computer Systems Department at the Jožef Stefan Institute. He is a an assistant professor at Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences at University of Ljubljana and visiting assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje ... read more
Russell Frew
New Zealand
Implementing Food Origin Verification Systems
Russell is an analytical chemist who started his career applying trace metal and stable isotope analyses to trace ocean processes ... read more
Arndt Schimmelmann
USA
Can ionizing radiation cause isotopic fractionation of organic compounds?
Arndt Schimmelmann received his M.Sc. Chemistry from the University of Braunschweig, Federal Republic of Germany 1979 and Ph.D. in Geochemistry, University of California in Los Angeles, USA1985.... read more
Janja Vidmar
Slovenia
The potential of single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for studying micro- and nanoscale particles in water and food
Janja Vidmar received a PhD in Environmental Sciences from Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School in 2017 ... read more
Zoyne Pedrero Zayas
France
Hg and Se fate and interaction in fish: new insights and potential valorization of tuna byproducts on sustainable aquafeeds
Zoyne PEDRERO ZAYAS is a research scientist at CNRS, specifically at IPREM, Pau, France. She obtained her PhD in Analytical Chemistry at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain ... read more
Dimitra A. Lambropoulou
Associate Professor, AUT
SMA®t-EVOO-Tools: Providing insights into Greek extra virgin olive oil authenticity and geographical origin.
Dr. Dimitra Lambropoulou, is an Associate Professor on Environmental Chemistry in the Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) ... read more
Claudia Zoani
Italian National Agency for New Technologies
Integrated Research Infrastructures’ initiatives in support to food quality and safety and sustainability of agrifood systems
Researcher at the ENEA Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, graduated in Chemistry with a PhD in Analytical Chemistry ... read more
Aleksandra Lobnik
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology in Ljubljana
Optical sensors for food freshness and pesticides detection
Aleksandra Lobnik graduated in 1991, at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology in Ljubljana ... read more