Scientific Committee José Luís Capelo Martínez, PhD UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) Carlos Lodeiro Espiño, PhD UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) Timothy Mason, PhD Coventry University (United Kingdom) Mickael Tanter, PhD Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, Paris (France) Giancarlo Cravotto, PhD Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologia del Farmaco, Universitá di Torino (Italy) Brijesh Tiwari, PhD Department of Food Biosciences, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Dublin (Ireland) Khoo Boo Cheong, PhD Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore (Singapore) Aharon Gedanken, PhD Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan (Israel) Andreas Mandelis, PhD Center for Advanced Diffusion-Wave Technologies (CADIFT), Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto (Canada) Daolun Chen, PhD Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada) Vincenzo Naddeo, PhD Sanitary Environmental Engineering Division (SEED), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno,Fisciano (Italy) Koen van Dongen, PhD Laboratory of Acoustical Wavefield Imaging, Department of Imaging Physics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, (Netherlands)