Analytical Chemistry Degree, Summa Cum Laude, at University of Ferrara in 1997. National Prize for Young Researchers promoted by the Italian Chemistry Federation in 1998. Master in Science, Technology and Management from University of Ferrara, working at the same time at the "Natta Research Center" of Shell-Montell Polyolefins, in 1998. PhD in Science and Technology of Innovative Materials from University of Parma in 2005.
Food Safety & Authenticity Research Manager in Barilla Spa company since 2003, working in an international context with public and private research centres\organizations on research projects within the field of food chemistry, food safety-quality-authenticity, food contact materials, sensing and mass spectrometry applications for food products.
Adjunct Professor of AgriFood Authenticity at Catholic University Sacred Heart - Milan/Piacenza.
Chair of the Italian National Normative Organization (UNI) Food Authenticity Working Group, member of working groups for Biotoxins-Processing Contaminants-Food Authenticity in European Committee for Standardization (CEN), Vice-Chair of the ILSI Process Related Compounds & Natural Toxins Task Force; Coordinator of Quality-Food Safety Pillar - Italian Cluster Agrifood Scientific Board.
Google Scholar H-index 29 & i10-index 62, Scopus H-index 25, Research Gate index 38. Scientific production documented by 6 book chapters, 2 books edited, 162 contributions at national and international conferences and 115 papers in international ISI journals.

Christian W. Klampfl obtained his Ph.D. from University of Innsbruck/Austria in 1993. In 1992 he moved to Johannes-Kepler University Linz as an assistant professor with a research focus mainly set on separation science (chromatography, electrophoresis). In the late 90ies his research shifted more and more towards hyphenation of separation techniques (mainly capillary electrophoresis) and mass spectrometry. 1999-2000 he worked as a research associate at the University of Hobart/Tasmania in the group of Prof. Paul Haddad. In 2001 he was promoted to Associate Professor. Main research areas are:

• - hyphenation of separation techniques to MS
• - ambient MS techniques like DART, DESI or direct spray MS,

with the a quite wide focus of application areas comprising:

• - clinical analysis and metabolomics
• - analysis of technical products (polymers, synthetic oils, coating...)
• - environmental metabolomics

Prof. Klampfl has published more than 120 papers and several book chapters, and has an h-factor of 32 (Scopus). He is currently serving as editor of Electrophoresis (Wiley). Prof. Klampfl is currently head of the Institute of Analytical and General Chemistry at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, head of the Department of General Chemistry and vice-president of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry (ASAC).

Rudolf Krska is full professor for (Bio-)Analytics and Organic Trace Analysis at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna# (BOKU). He is head of the Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics the Department IFA-Tulln at BOKU. Prof. Rudolf Krska has received 11 scientific awards and is (co )author of more than 430 SCI publications (h-index: 66, Scopus) In 2018, he has become jointly appointed Professor within the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. Since 2020 Prof. Rudolf Krska is President of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry.

Prof. Ph. Schmitt-Kopplin's team performs tailored and comprehensive metabolomics in the food-health continuum. He has a strong profile in analytical chemistry with integrated approaches combining (ultra)high resolution mass spectrometry, (µ)separation sciences, NMR-spectroscopy with (bio)informatics for the description of complex organic systems on a molecular level. A focus in the last decades was to implement ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry into cross-Omics applications and for a rapid and robust tool for deep metabotyping and small molecules profiling. His focus is the chemical understanding of microbiomes in foods, health and environments and integrating these information with existing biological Omics data. His interdisciplinary studies are related to the interface of chemistry and biology. He is director of the research unit analytical BioGeoChemistry of the Helmholtz Munich and heads the Comprehensive Foodomics Platform at the Institute of analytical Food Chemistry of the Technische University Munich Germany.

Jens Sloth is professor and research group leader of the Analytical Food Chemistry group at the National Food Institute (DTU Food) of the Technical University of Denmark. He is a MSc graduate from the Technical University in Denmark (1995) and later finalized his phd studies at the University of Bergen in Norway (2005). He has extensive experience on research on trace elements in food and feed with emphasis on the development of methods for trace element speciation. He is a lecturer in analytical food chemistry at DTU and has been supervisor for 25+ thesis works at PhD, MSc and BSc level. He is an expert member of several CEN standardization committees for trace elements in food and feed and contributed to the development of new standards in the area. In 2018, he was appointed as director of the European Union reference laboratory for metals and nitrogenous compounds in feed and food (EURL-MN).

Dr. Hans Mol is senior scientist at Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), part of Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. He has 25 years of experience in pesticides residue analysis in food, human, and environmental matrices in the frame of external and internal exposure assessment. He is heading the National Reference Laboratory for pesticides in food and feed in the Netherlands, and is member of the advisory board on the EU guidance document on quality control and method validation procedures for pesticide residue analysis in food and feed. He is involved in target and non-target analysis and QA/QC activities in the EU projects such as HBM4EU, SPRINT and PARC.

Jacob de Boer is Professor emeritus at the Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has a PhD in analytical chemistry. Prof. de Boer has worked for 47 years on environmental contaminans.
In 1998 he won the Excellent Scientist Award of the Wageningen University. He has (co)coordinated a number of European research projects and many research projects for other international organisations and industries. Currently, he is involved in the EU research projects CHLOFFIN and REVAMP, both with a relation to certified reference materials. He organised numerous international interlaboratory studies on contaminants. He is a regular reviewer of scientific projects and programmes in various countries.
He has published 250 peer reviewed articles among which one paper in Nature and one in Science, two books and 21 book chapters. He is editor-in-chief of Chemosphere (Impact factor 7.1) and member of the editorial board of the Handbook of Environmental Chemistry.

Prof.dr. Hans-Gerd Janssen obtained an MSc. (1987) and PhD degree (1991) in analytical chemistry from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He joined Unilever in 1999 as group-leader chromatography and mass spectrometry. He has been, or is, active as a board member in several national committees including the Section for Analytical Chemistry of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society. He also is active in several international scientific and organising committees for symposia and he is a member of the editorial board of several journals. In 2004 Hans-Gerd was appointed part-time professor Analytical Separations at the University of Amsterdam. In 2019 he moved to Wageningen University where he now holds a similar part-time position. His research focuses on the development of new chromatographic methods for the analysis of complex food-related samples. He has more than 200 publications in the area of chromatography, mass spectrometry and food analysis.

Dr Stefan van Leeuwen is senior scientist at Wageningen Food Safety Research. He's an analytical chemist and has an interest in the development of chromatography-mass spectrometry based methods for trace analysis of (environmental) contaminants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), and related substances, and unraveling complex contaminants mixtures such as MOSH/MOAH and chlorinated paraffins (CPs). Moreover, he's involved in development of complementary analytical approaches for identification of unknown contaminants (e.g. novel PFAS). His current interest is in the analytical identification of emerging food safety issues rising from circular food production.