**About the Editors**

#### **Mohammed Gagaoua**

Dr. Mohammed Gagaoua is a meat scientist at PEGASE research unit, INRAE, France who develops research activities on pork meat quality and production systems. Mohammed has expertise on muscle biology, meat biochemistry and the eating qualities of meat and meat products along their evaluation by consumers. He aims by his research a better understanding of the mechanisms underpinning meat quality development and determination. Mohammed has expertise in foodomics, mainly proteomics, and statistical approaches that consider environmental, production systems, and post-slaughter harvesting practices. He has respected knowledge in data integration in the context of farm-to-fork continuum and identification of the main drivers of the final eating qualities of meat. He is expert in MeatOmics and their use for the discovery of biomarkers of eating qualities of meat. Mohammed was runner-up in 2015 for the International Meat Secretariat Award; he received the ICoMST2018 award by Robin Shorthouse for outstanding contribution to advancing Meat Science and the ICoMST2018 Meat Science journal award for best presentation in Australia. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, edited 2 books; has 18 book chapters, 50 proceedings, along with over 150 contributions in national and international conferences. Dr. Mohammed Gagaoua is scientific editor and/or member of editorial boards of several journals including *Meat Science*, *Meat Technology*, *Scientific African*, *Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture*, *Peer Community in Animal Science*, *Foods*, *Frontiers in Animal Science*.

#### **Brigitte Picard**

Dr. Brigitte Picard is a Director of Research at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) in France. After a bachelor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand and a thesis on the baking quality of hybrid wheat, she was recruited by INRA in 1991. Her research topic at the Joint Unit of Research on Herbivores concerned skeletal muscle development and ruminants' meat quality. Her skills include skeletal muscle physiology, analysis of proteins (electrophoresis, Western blot, ELISA, and immunohistochemistry), primary cells cultures (myoblasts and satellite cells), and proteomic analysis of skeletal muscle. Her work focuses on the prediction of beef tenderness from proteomic biomarkers and the link between rearing practices and beef sensory qualities. Brigitte, with an h-index of 46, is the author of more than 230 peer-reviewed papers and several communications at national and international conferences. From 2004 to 2009, she was the French correspondent of the COST 925 action "The importance of prenatal events for postnatal muscle growth in relation to the quality of muscle-based foods". Then, she was a member of the COST FA1002 "Advances in Farm Animal Proteomics". From 1992 to 2016, she was the head of several INRA research teams. Since 2017, she has been co-director of the regional Ruminant Meat Consortium, comprising professionals in the meat sector and researchers.
