Cristina Andres-Lacueva
University of Barcelona, Spain

Cristina Andres-Lacueva is a Full Professor and Principal Investigator at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Security within the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Barcelona (UB) and at the CIBERFES, on Frailty and Healthy Aging from the Biomedical Research Networking Center (CIBER) of the Carlos III Health Institute. She leads an accredited research group focused on Biomarkers, Exposome, and Nutritional Metabolomics, pioneering innovative approaches to studying the exposome and applying metabolomics in nutrition research to advance the field of Precision Nutrition. She is a recipient of the ICREA Academia Award and actively participates in six European consortia: FoodBall, Maple, D-CogPlas, Digumet, Carb4-Health, and Hub-Platform. Her current research efforts are centered on the Food4Brain and Food4HealthyAging studies (BBHI).

Prof. Andres-Lacueva serves as a collaborator for the Division of Coordination and Evaluation of the Research National Agency within the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities of the Spanish Government. She was also a member of the Steering Committee advising the European Commissionon the Foresight Study – Tomorrow’s Healthy Society: Exploring Research Priorities for Foods and Diet. Additionally, she contributed as an expert in the development and consensus of dietary recommendations for the European adult population through the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission on the Feasibility Study on Dietary Recommendations for Older European Citizens.

She coordinates the Master’s Program in Innovation and Food Development at the University ofBarcelona and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Scientist by Clarivate Analytics in 2021 and 2022. Furthermore, she ranks among the top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists, according to the 2024 Stanford Ranking by Elsevier. Prof. Andres-Lacueva has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and holds an H-index of 76 (Web of Science). ORCID: 0000-0002-8494-4978; ResearcherID: J-3377-2012

Evelina Charidemou
University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Dr. Evelina Charidemou is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nicosia. She graduated with first-class honors in Biochemistry from Imperial College London and completed her PhD in 2019 at the University of Cambridge in Professor Julian Griffin’sgroup. Her research linked specific amino acids to insulin resistance via de novo lipogenesis,using advanced metabolomic and bioinformatic techniques. In 2019, Evelina was awarded a prestigious Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, during which she combined metabolomic and epigenomic approaches to study metabolic changes caused by epigenetic modifiers at the University of Cyprus. Evelina has presented her work internationally and published in leading scientific journals. She has developed innovative methods that integrate molecular biology, biochemistry, and computational techniques to study epigenetics and metabolism. She is an active member of the metabolomics community, having chaired the Early Career Members Network of the Metabolomics Society (2021–2023) and founded the Cyprus Metabolomics Network to promote the field locally and globally.

Hyungwon Choi
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Choi completed his PhD at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Currently he is associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He serves as the program leader of Singapore Lipidomics Incubator in Life Sciences Institute and the director of Cardiovascular - Metabolic Disease Translational Research Program in the medical school.

Fabien Jourdan
INRAE-MetaboHUB, France

Fabien Jourdan holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Montpellier. He is INRAE research director (DR) in the research laboratory TOXALIM, Toulouse (France). He is co-leading ateam of 30 scientists (Team MeX “Metabolism and Xenobiotics”) working on the metabolic impact of food contaminants on Human health. His main expertise is the development of computational solutions to model metabolism at the cellular or tissue level. Since 2009, he has coordinated the development of the MetExplore web server which is used by more than 1500 users worldwide to study omics data in the context of metabolic networks. Since 2021, he is director of French national infrastructure for Metabolomics and Fluxomics MetaboHUB. Former president of French-Speaking Metabolomics and Fluxomics Network (RFMF) he served as international Metabolomics Society secretary from 2020 to 2024.

Jennifer Kirwan
Berlin Institute of Health at Charité Universitätsmedizin, Germany

Dr Kirwan started her career as a clinical veterinarian where she became increasingly interested in translational and evidence-based medicine before undertaking a PhD in metabolomics. She now heads Berlin Institute of Health Metabolomics at Charité University Hospital in Berlin, where she focuses on translational health-related metabolomics, especially on its quality management aspects. She is particularly interested in the gut-brain-heart health triad and how the microbiome influences health. She is a founding member of the German Metabolomics Society, a former Coordinating Committee Chair of the international Metabolomics quality assurance and quality control consortium (MQACC) and is an active member of the Precision Medicine and Pharmacogenomics working group of the International Metabolomics Society.

Norberto Peporine Lopes
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Norberto Peporine Lopes is a Pharmacist with a master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of São Paulo (USP). He is a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences, where he serves as Financial Director. Currently, he is a Full Professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto (FCFRP-USP), Coordinator of the Research Center for Natural and Synthetic Products, and Head of the Mass Spectrometry Center for Organic Micromolecules.

At his institution, he has held several elected positions, including Head of the Department of Physics and Chemistry and President of the Research Committee. He was a member of the USP Advanced Studies Group at the Ribeirão Preto campus and the Steering Committee of the Supera ParqueTechnology Park. Currently, he is the Coordinator of the Ribeirão Preto branch of INOVA-USP (Innovation Center of the University of São Paulo) and the Coordinator of NIDUS (Entrepreneurshipand Startup Development Center), the first Innovation Residency program in Brazil.

Prof. Lopes is an active member of several professional societies, including the Brazilian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Brazilian Society of Mass Spectrometry (BrMASS), the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ), and the Brazilian Society of Pharmacognosy. Internationally, he is a member of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

He has held several elected positions within SBQ, including President, President-elect, Member of theAdvisory Board, Member and President of the Fiscal Council, General Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-Director, and Treasurer of the Natural Products Division. At BrMASS, he served as Financial Director and a member of the Advisory Board.

Prof. Lopes has undertaken short-term research internships in Germany (University of Tübingen), the United States (Washington State University), and the United Kingdom (University of Bristol). He completed his postdoctoral research in Mass Spectrometry of Natural Products at the University of Cambridge (UK) and served as a Visiting Professor in Mass Spectrometry at the University of Münster.

He has received ten awards, including the BrMASS Medal, the Fernando Galembeck Innovation Award (SBQ), and the Jeremy Knowles Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Currently, he is in Editor Board of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (Wiley), Planta Medica (GA), Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), OMEGA-ACS (American Chemical Society), and Chemical Society Reviews. His research focuses on Natural Products Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry, with an emphasis on Chemical Ecology. Prof. Norberto Peporine Lopes has authored over 520 peer-reviewed publications and holds an H-index of 51 (Web of Science). ORCID:0000-0002-8159-3658

Sastia Prama Putri
Osaka University, Japan

Sastia Putri is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. Sastia received her B.Sc. degree in 2004 from Bandung Institute of Technology Indonesia, M.Eng. and PhD degree in 2008 and 2010 from Osaka University, respectively. Her research field is the application of metabolomics for food science and microbiology. She won the L’Oreal Award for women in science in 2015 for her work on coffee metabolomics, Osaka Universityaward in 2018, Metabolomics Society President’s award in 2020, the Saito Award 2022 from the Society for Biotechnology Japan and the Momofuku Ando Prize in 2024 for her groundbreaking work in combining metabolomics and nutritional epidemiology to identify underexplored metabolites in food.

Jing-Ke Weng
Institute for Plant-Human Interface, Northeastern University, USA

Jing-Ke Weng is the Inaugural Director of the Institute for Plant-Human Interface, a Professor ofChemistry, Chemical Biology, and Bioengineering, and an Affiliated Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. Before joining Northeastern, he was a member of the Whitehead Institute and served as an Assistant Professor and later an Associate Professor of Biology at MIT (2013–2023). Dr. Weng earned his B.S. in Biotechnology from Zhejiang University (2003) and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Purdue University (2009). He completed his postdoctoral training as a Pioneer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salk Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute(2009–2013). Dr. Weng’s research focuses on understanding the origin and evolution of plant specialized metabolism at the enzyme, pathway, and systems levels, as well as how plants utilize specific small molecules to interact with their biotic and abiotic environments. Through synthetic biology and metabolic engineering approaches, he develops sustainable platforms for producing high-value natural products. Additionally, he leverages plants and plant-derived molecules as unique model systems and chemical tools to study human diseases, including metabolic syndromes and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Weng has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Beckman Young Investigator Award (2016), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2016), the Searle Scholar Award (2015), the Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences (2014), the American Society of Plant Biologists Early Career Award (2014), and the Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science (2013). He has also served as a co-founder or scientific advisor to several biotech companies.