Thirteenth International Conference on Food Studies

  • Technologies of Sustainable Food: Facing the Challenge of Climate Change
  • 18-20 October 2023
  • University of Guadalajara Guadalajara, México + Online

2023 Plenary Speakers

The Thirteenth International Conference on Food Studies featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Marleny D.A. Saldaña

Marleny D.A. Saldaña

Professor in Food/Bio-Engineering Processing, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

"Innovations in Sustainable Pressurized Fluid Systems: Upcycling of Agri/Food By-Products with a Biorefinery Approach"

Jose M. Lagaron

Jose M. Lagaron

Group Leader and Founder, Novel Materials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA) of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Valencia, Spain

"Encapsulación de Bioactivos sin Aplicación de Temperatura Mediante la Tecnología Disruptiva del Electroesprayado de Alto Rendimiento"

Roberto Parra Saldívar

Roberto Parra Saldívar

Director of Special Project Unit Bioproduction Systems for Sustainable Manufacture, Institute of Advanced Materials for Sustainable Manufacture (IAMSM), Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

"Sustainability of the Agri-Food System: From Waste to Bio-Products"

Juan Arturo Ragazzo-Sanchez

Juan Arturo Ragazzo-Sanchez

Profesor, Instituto Tecnológico de Tepic, Departamento de Biotecnología e Ingeniería de Alimentos, Departamento de Ciencia de los Alimentos, Nayarit, México

"BioMateriales para la estabilización de Compuestos de Alto Valor Biológico con potencial uso en la Industria de Alimentos"

Mario Iván Alemán

Mario Iván Alemán

University of Guadalajara, Mexico

"Climate Change and Food Sovereignty: Strategies for the Future"

Conference Chair

Blanca Rosa Aguilar Uscanga

Blanca Rosa Aguilar Uscanga

University of Guadalajara, Mexico

Research Network Chairs

Hennie Fisher

Hennie Fisher

University of Pretoria, South Africa

(English)

Blanca Rosa Aguilar Uscanga

Blanca Rosa Aguilar Uscanga

University of Guadalajara, Mexico

(Spanish)

Local Organizing Committee

  • Dr. Josue Raymundo Solis Pacheco, CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
  • Dra. Adriana Macaria Macías Lamas, CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
  • Dra. Karina Jeanette Parra Saavedra, CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
  • Dra. Alma Hortensia Martínez Preciado, CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
  • Dra. Montserrat Calderon Santoyo, Instituto Tecnológico de Tepic, Nayarit, México
  • Dr. Juan Arturo Ragazzo Sánchez, Instituto Tecnológico de Tepic, Nayarit, México
  • Dra. Angélica Villarruel Lopez, Universidad de Guadalajara, México

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2023 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:

Janna Tamargo

Janna Tamargo

University of Florida, USA

(In-Person)

Yaír Adonaí Sánchez Nuño

Yaír Adonaí Sánchez Nuño

University of Guadalajara, Mexico

(In-Person)

Elisa Gutiérrez Navarro

Elisa Gutiérrez Navarro

University of Guadalajara, Mexico

(In-Person)

Julio César Barros-Castillo

Julio César Barros-Castillo

University of Guadalajara, Mexico

(In-Person)

​Angelica Yanet Napoles Medina

​Angelica Yanet Napoles Medina

University of Guadalajara, Mexico

(In-Person)

Daniela Ortiz Quiñones

Daniela Ortiz Quiñones

Universidad de Monterrey, México

(In-Person)

​Cynthia Rosales

​Cynthia Rosales

Universidad de Monterrey, México

(In-Person)

Irene Yoon

Irene Yoon

University of Washington, USA

(In-Person)

Navoda Nirmani Liyana Pathirana

Navoda Nirmani Liyana Pathirana

Deakin University, Australia

(Online Only)

Sarthak Agarwal

Sarthak Agarwal

Harvard University, USA

(Online Only)

Mohaddese Ghadiri

Mohaddese Ghadiri

University of Victoria, Canada

(Online Only)

Conference Partners