Plenary Lectures

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  José Miguel Aguilera

  JOSÉ M. AGUILERA is Emeritus Professor of Chemical and Food Engineering at the P. Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC) in Santiago. A chemical engineer, he holds a PhD in food science from Cornell University (minor in ChemE). His research has focused on the role of food microstructure in food products, health and wellbeing.
  
  Aguilera was recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship (1991), the A. von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize (2001), the Research and Development Award (2005) and the Marcel Loncin Research Prize (2006) of the institute of Food Technology (USA). In 2008 he was awarded the highest scientific honor bestowed by Chile, the National Prize in Applied Sciences and Technology. In 2010 Prof. Aguilera was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States, and in 2014 a foreign associate of the Academie d'Agriculture de France. In 2016 he became a member of the Governing Council of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) and recently was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Altiplano (Peru).
  
  In 2010-2013 he was President of the National Commission of Scientific and Technological Research of Chile, equivalent to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

  Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile

  Title: Challenges of the alimentation of the XXI century

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  Colin Hill

  Colin Hill has a Ph.D in molecular microbiology and is Professor of Microbiology at University College Cork, Ireland. His main interests are in infectious disease, particularly in the role of the gut microbiome (bacteria and bacteriophage) in protecting against microbial infections. He is also a Principal Investigator in APC Microbiome Ireland in Cork, a large Science Foundation Ireland supported research centre working with industry devoted to the study of the role of the gut microbiota in health and disease. In 2005 Prof. Hill was awarded a D.Sc by the National University of Ireland in recognition of his contributions to research. In 2009 he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy and in 2010 he received the Metchnikoff Prize in Microbiology and was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology. He has published more than 525 papers and holds 18 patents.

  University College Cork, Ireland

  Title: Mining the microbiome for new antimicrobial's

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  Tai Hyun Park

  Tai Hyun Park is Professor and Head at the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, and also Director of Institute of Chemical Processes. He received his B.S. degree (Seoul National University), M.S. degree (KAIST), and Ph.D. degree (Purdue University) all in Chemical Engineering, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Irvine. He is a member of The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and also a member of The National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK). He is a Fellow of the University of Tokyo. He is serving as Editor of "Biotechnology Journal (Wiley)" and "Enzyme and Microbial Technology (Elsevier)". He served as Appointed Director of National Research Council of Science & Technology. He is Secretary General of Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB) and was President of The Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (KSBB), President of Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology (AICT), President of Bio-MAX Institute, and President of KOFAC (Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity). His research area is bioelectronic nose and tongue, cellular engineering, and nanobiotechnology.

  Seoul National University, Korea

  Title: Bioelectronic nose and tongue: Analytical tools for food quality and safety assessment