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Yimin Zhu

Dr. Yimin Zhu is a full professor and holder of the Pulte Homes Endowed Professorship in the Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management at Louisiana State University. He has more than 20 years of academic teaching, research, and industry experiences. Throughout his career, he has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses including building information modeling, construction information systems, and sustainable construction. Dr. Zhu’s research focus is on computing for built environment design and engineering. His research was funded by various state and federal...Read more

Weslynne Ashton

Weslynne Ashton is an Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainability at the Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business. Dr. Ashton’s research focuses on industrial ecology and the circular economy, or how to optimize energy, water, and material resource flows as well as human benefits in socio-ecological systems. Her work also examines developing entrepreneurial solutions to social and environmental challenges and the adoption of socially and environmentally responsible strategies in business, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs). For the...Read more

Shannon Thoits

Shannon Thoits received both her B.S. in Environmental Science, and her Masters of Environmental Management in Corporate Sustainability, from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. Shannon is a Sustainability Analyst at Apeel, and spends her time quantifying environmental metrics related to Apeel produce, and working across teams integrate sustainability into various company operations. ...Read more

Chuck Frazier

Chuck Frazier received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara. At Apeel, Chuck is the Senior Director of Formulation Sciences, where he oversees both product development and process scale-up of Apeel's formulations.Read more

Henry Jeyakumar

Professor Jeyakumar Henry is currently Deputy Executive Director of Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Centre, A*STAR in Singapore.  He was the founding director of the Functional Food Centre in Oxford. Trained initially as a Food scientist, he obtained his MSc and PhD in Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was a Board member of UK Food Standards Agency and member of the general Advisory Committee on Science of the Food standard agency (UK). Prof. Henry is on the Board of Directors of International Life...Read more

Ciarán Forde

Dr. Forde established the Sensory and Ingestive Behaviour team in 2015 at the Clinical Nutrition Research Center in Singapore and leads research on how food sensory properties can be used to influence calorie selection, eating behaviours and energy intake.  Dr. Forde has published approximately 90 scientific articles and book chapters, and presented his team’s findings at over 100 national and international meetings.  Dr. Forde is currently appointed as the Senior Principal Investigator in ‘Sensory Nutritional Science’ at the Clinical Nutrition Research Center, a part of the...Read more

Stefan Wuertz

Professor Stefan Wuertz teaches and performs research at the interface of microbiology and environmental engineering. His research focuses on the structure and function of microbial communities in engineered treatment systems. He specialises in biofilm systems in wastewater treatment, the use of molecular tools to describe microbial communities and biological processes, and developing methodology to detect low-level pathogens in the environment. His research team develops bioprocesses and investigates environmental solutions to create novel and multi-scale interactive engineering platforms...Read more

Rina Agustina

Dr. Agustina holds a PhD in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University, The Netherlands through a fellowship from the International Nutrition Foundation/Ellison Medical Foundation USA. She finished her Master (MSc) degree program in Nutrition at Universitas Indonesia (was in collaboration with SEAMEO-TROPMED and Faculty of Medicine), with a fellowship from the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) (2000). She obtained her MD from the Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University (1997). Since year 2000, she has been a lecturer for the post-graduate study program in nutrition at the Department...Read more

Benjamin Smith

Ben Smith is the Director for the newly formed Innovations in Food and Chemical Safety Programme at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore’s lead government agency for innovation. He joins A*STAR from the specialty ingredients industry where he worked for the Swiss flavour and fragrance company Firmenich S.A. as their chief safety scientist.

Initially trained as a toxicologist and chemist he started his studies in environmental toxicology before switching his focus to applied toxicology. Nowadays his research efforts are focused on developing and...Read more

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