New Editors in food structure and functionality

Food & Function is now in its third year of publication and we are delighted to announce the appointment of our third associate editor, Dr Tim Foster, from the University of Nottingham in the UK.

Tim is Associate Professor and Reader in Food Structure and joined the University of Nottingham in 2007 after over 15 years at Unilever. His Editorial Office opened for submissions at the end of May. Tim joins the Associate Editor team of Steven Feng Chen and Cesar Fraga who maintain the highest standards, so that only the best research at the interface of the chemistry, physics and biology of food is published in Food & Function.

We are also very pleased to announce the appointment of Nissim Garti to the Editorial Board of Food & Function.

Nissim is a Professor in Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and he is also a multi-award winner with over 400 peer reviewed manuscripts and 90 patents. Nissim's appointment further strengthens the Editorial Board's expertise in Food Structure and Functionality and Nissim has already shown his support of the Journal through his recently published review on lyotropic liquid crystals (LLC) as delivery vehicles (DOI: 10.1039/c2fo00005a) which you can read online.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Editorial Board member Alejandro Marangoni.

Alejandro was Chair of the Delivery of Functionality in Complex Food Systems Symposium held in Guelph, Canada, in August 2011, and was Guest Editor of an excellent issue of selected papers from this conference for the Journal in March 2012.

This issue contains 14 articles from speakers at the conference, including leaders in the field, spanning the three conference topics:

• Novel structures for engineered bioactive delivery

• Engineering self-assembly in foods: Principles and applications

• Food structuring as a means to modulate the physiological response of foods.

You can read this issue on the themed issue tab of the Food & Function homepage.

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We would like to welcome Tim and Nissim to the Food & Function team, who are supporting this unique journal which bridges the gap between research on the chemistry and physics of food with health and nutrition.

 

Gary Williamson

Editor-in-Chief

 

Sarah Ruthven

Managing Editor

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