Dr. Yigal Achmon is a food and agriculture scientist. He currently holds an Associate Professor position at the Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technion (GTIIT) (https://yigalachmon.wixsite.com/achmonslab). He holds a BSc in Biochemistry and food science from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem and direct PhD in Biotechnology and Food Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Achmon spent three years at Professor Christopher Simmon’s lab at the University of California at Davis as a postdoctoral researcher. There he had developed an interdisciplinary approach to industrial food waste valorization research which included collaborating with a plant scientist and a microbiologist among others. After his time at the University of California at Davis he had done a short postdoctoral at Volacni Israeli agricultural center, working on the microbiome of fresh cow milk. He then continued to a lecturer position at the GTIIT along with a research position at Ka Yin Leung’s group working on the microbial resistome. 

• Food sustainability
• Food microbiomes
• Food volatomes
• Food spoilage
• Advanced food shelf-life simulation
• Soil biosolarization
• High solid anaerobic digestion

Liang Y, Li Yilin, Lin Yu, Liu X, Zou Y, Yu P, Zeng Y, Wang X, Wang Y, Van Horne C, Achmon Y *. Assessment of using solid residues of fish for treating soil by the biosolarization technique as an alternative to soil fumigation. Journal of Cleaner Production 357 (2022) 131886. (IF – 11.072).

Ullah Dar S, Wu Z,  Zhang L,  Yu P,  Qin Y,  Shen Y,  Zou Y,  Poh L, Eichen Y, Achmon Y *. On the quest for novel bio-degradable plastics for agricultural field mulching. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, (2022) DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.922974 (IF – 6.064).

Fernández-Bayo JD, Achmon Y, Guerrero MM, Di Gioia F. Editorial: Upcycling organic waste for the sustainable management of soilborne pests and pathogens in agri-food systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.1012789 (IF – 5.005)

Haber Z, Rubio Wilhelmi MM, Fernández-Bayo JD, Harrold DR, Stapleton JJ, Toubiana D, VanderGheynst JS, Blumwald E, Simmons CW, Sade N and Achmon Y *. The effect of circular soil biosolarization treatment on the physiology, metabolomics, and microbiome of tomato plants under certain abiotic stresses. Frontiers in Plant Science (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1009956 (IF – 6.627).

Wang X, Zohar-Perez C, Zeng Y, Zou Y, Chen Y, Wu S, Wang Y, Arazi S, Nussinovitch A, Achmon Y*. Assessment of the environmental impact of agar, alginate, and gellan gum carbohydrate gum macro beads biodegradation in a simulated agricultural field system. Environmental Technology & Innovation 30 (2023) 103034 (IF – 7.758)

Zou Y, Qiu B, Lin F, Wu W, Guo R, Xing J, Zhao Z, Shpigelman A and, Achmon Y*. Assessment of the influence of using green tea waste and fish waste as soil amendments for biosolarization on the growth of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. ramosa Hort.). Frontiers Sustainable Food Systems. 7:1174528. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1174528

Mehmood CT, Qiu H, Chen L, Achmon Y, Zhong Z. Ceramic membrane reactor integrated with UV/O3/Catalyst Beads for treating real textile wastewater: Enhanced effluent quality, fouling control and molecular transformations of DOM. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2023.110832

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