**About the Editors**

#### **Qianchun Deng**

Ph.D., Professor, doctoral supervisor, National high-level talents special support plan talents, "Agricultural Talents and Leading Talents" of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Executive Chief of Oil Quality Chemistry and Processing Utilization Innovation Team of Oil Crop Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Deputy Director of Key Laboratory of Oil Processing of Ministry of Agriculture, Secretary-General of the National Healthy Oil Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, Vice Chairman of the Clinical Nutrition Special Committee of the Chinese Society for the Promotion of Human Health Science and Technology, Vice Chairman of the Hubei Society for Food Science and Technology, Editorial Board of "*Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition*" and "*Food Science and Human Wellness*", Associate Editor of "*Chinese Journal of Oil Crop Sciences*", Youth Editorial Board of "*Food Science*", and Editorial Board of "*Journal of Light Industry*". He is mainly engaged in the research of characteristic oilseed processing and plant-based foods. He hosted over 20 National and Provincial level projects and industry-university-research cooperation projects. He authorized 23 national invention patents. He has created more than 20 new products, such as visual fatigue relief health food, cleaning label flaxseed-based plant milk, DHA mixed-protein solid beverage. He has published more than 100 papers as the first or corresponding author in *Comp. Rev. Food Sci. Food Safe*, *Prog. Lipid Res.*, *Food Hydrocoll.*, *Food Science*, etc. The achievements have been industrialized and applied in relevant listed companies and leading industrialization enterprises, with significant economic and social benefits. As the main contributor, he has won five scientific and technological awards, including the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (ranking second) and the first prize at the Provincial and Ministerial level.

#### **Ruijie Liu**

Ph.D., Professor, doctoral supervisor, School of Food Science and technology in Jiangnan University. Member of a council of oil Sub-Association & Cereals and Oils Nutrition Sub-Association of China Cereals and oils Association (CCOA), and editorial board member of China oils and fats. National excellent scientific and technological worker of grain and oil, winner of "Young Scientist Investigator Award" of international fatty acid and lipid Society (ISSFAL) and young science and technology award of CCOA, doctor of entrepreneurship and innovation of "entrepreneurship and innovation plan" of Jiangsu Province, and outstanding young backbone teacher of "blue project" of Jiangsu Province. In recent years, she has received many research projects including 6 General Program fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 4 Science and Technology projects (such as the National Key Technology R&D Program), and a lot of cooperation projects from enterprises. She received more than 10 awards/honors, including the Prize for Progress in Science and Technology of Jiangsu Province, Science and Technology Progress Award from China National Light Industry Council, and China Patent Excellence Award. She has formulated and revised more than 10 national and industry standards for food safety; authorized more than 40 Utility patents and published over 60 SCI/EI journal articles.

#### **Xin Xu**

Professor and Doctoral Advisor, School of Food Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University; Visiting Scholar, Cornell University and University of Texas at Austin; Former Mobile Commissioner at the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Ministry of Science and Technology Rural Center; Research Team Leader of Lipid Nutrition and Safety, focused on basic theoretical research and new product development of lipid nutrition and functional food resources; Project Leader of 8 National Natural Science Foundation projects and more than 20 other provincial and enterprise commissioned research projects in recent years; Published over 60 papers in domestic and international academic journals, including *J. Agric. Food Chem.*, *Food Chem.*, *Food Funct.*, and *Food Science* (Chinese journal), among others; Applied for and authorized 10 national invention patents; Peer Review Expert for National Natural Science Foundation, National Food Production Permit Registration Reviewer, and Member of Jiangsu Provincial Food Safety Standards Expert Committee. Research interests include Development and utilization of functional food resources; lipid nutrition and safety; active ingredients of medicinal and edible plants; food biotechnology.
