The Panelists
Prof. Chris Elliott, PhD, FRSC, FRSB, MRIA, OBE (Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
Chris is Professor of Food Safety and founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast. He has published more than 480 peer review articles relating to the detection and control of agriculture, food and environmental related contaminants and fraud. Chris is a visiting Professor at the China Agriculture University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of a Winston Churchill Fellowship and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Society of Biology. He was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Theophilus Redwood Prize and an OBE in 2017. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2020.
Prof. Chiara Cordero (University of Turin, Italy)
Prof. Cordero's research interests focus on: (a) development of innovative and advanced instrumental configurations for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) coupled to Mass Spectrometry (MS) for food-omics investiogations (profiling and fingerprinting approaches); (b) discovery of food intake markers (food metabolomics, nutrimetabolomics and volatilomics) in bio-fluids after diet-induced derangements; (c) development and application of miniaturized, fully automated and solvent-free sample preparation approaches (Solid Phase Microextraction SPME, Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction SBSE) for sensomic characterization of food. In 2008, Chiara was awarded with the "Leslie S. Ettre” Award for “original research in capillary gas chromatography with an emphasis on environmental and food safety" and in 2014 received the “John B. Phillips Award” for her research activity in the field of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography.
Dr Stéphane Bayen (McGill University, Canada)
Dr Bayen's research interests include (a) analytical chemistry applied to the fingerprinting of trace chemicals in agri-food matrices, (b) the fate of contaminants (contaminant chemistry; bioaccumulation; behavior of contaminants during food processing) and (c) ecological & human health risk assessments. His research uses high-resolution mass spectrometry and advanced big data processing tools, for the rapid characterization of thousands of never-before-studied chemicals in complex agri-food matrices. Dr Bayen has a proven history of research and collaboration with industry and food safety agencies on matrices including honey, seafood, food extracts, or maple syrup on food authenticity. He has authored or co-authored 58 scientific articles in top peer-reviewed scientific journals and 2 book chapters, and has presented his work in over 100 invited presentations/posters at international scientific conferences. Most recently, Bayen became recipient of the Agilent Thought Leader Award, recognizing his leadership and contributions to the fields of Food Analysis and Food Authenticity.
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