Dr. Lola Pérez-Marin
Lola Pérez-Marin is a full Professor in Engineering and Technology of Livestock Production, as well as in Near-Infrared Sensors for Quality, Safety, and Traceability of Agro-Food Products at the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering (ETSIAM), University of Córdoba, Spain. She is the current President of the ICNIRS (International Council of NIRS). She is internationally recognized for her expertise in the use of sensors and emerging technologies applied to food quality, integrity and authenticity. Her work in NIR spectral sensors covers both fundamental and applied research. Her research has led to over 400 scientific publications, including 165 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals (H-index: 37), along with numerous invited talks at national and international conferences and workshops. She led the COST Action SensorFINT (European Network for Assuring Food Integrity Using Non-Destructive Spectral Sensors, 2020–2024), which brought together more than 30 countries and 300 researchers from Europe and beyond, and the COST Innovator Grant SensAIfood (AI Methods for Spectral Data Processing to Address Food Fraud and Authenticity Issues, 2024–2025). She was awarded the International Tomas Hirschfeld Award in 2014 and the International Birth Award in 2020 for her outstanding contributions to the field of NIR spectroscopy.
Dr. Hoeil Chung
Hoeil Chung is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry in Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. He obtained his B.S. from Hanyang University in 1989 and Ph.D. from University of Iowa in 1994. Right after earning his Ph.D., he joined SK Energy in Korea as a research scientist and was involved in projects for developing diverse near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic systems for on-line monitoring of and petrochemical processes; for example, gasoline blending and naphtha reforming. In 2002, he joined Hanyang University and started his academic research in the areas of transmission/wide area coverage Raman spectroscopy and NIR spectroscopy for diverse non-destructive analysis. Reproducible and reusable SERS schemes to detect disease biomarkers, electrochemical synthesis of metal-alloy nanostructures and development of advanced algorithms have been performed in his research group so far. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals.