Meet the editor

Dr. Hoda S. El-Sayed is an Associate Professor of Dairy and Food Microbiology in the Dairy Department, at the National Research Centre, Egypt. She graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, where she received her MSc and Ph.D. in 2008 and 2013, respectively. She has published fifty-five research articles on the microencapsulation of probiotics, the development of functional products, controlling the

shelf life of food using plant extracts, and the use of nanotechnology in food packaging. She has one Egyptian patent to her credit. Dr. El-Sayed received the award for best scientific paper from Unilever Mashreq in 2016, the Scientific Encouragement in Dairy Science award from the Egyptian Society of Dairy Science in 2017, and a best scientific paper award from the Dream Company in 2019 and 2020.
