Alireza SadeghiDr. Alireza Sadeghi received his PhD degree in 2012 in Food Microbiology from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. He has extensive experience in the field of Food Microbiology, conducting research especially on “Sourdough Biotechnology, Biopresrvatives and Probiotics”, and being reviewer of some important journals as “Trends in Food Science & Technology, Future Foods, Food Research International, Food Chemistry, Food Hydrocolloids, Food Control, Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, Food Microbiology, Applied Food Research and Food Bioscience”. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran, and he is an academic member of GAU (Iran). He has published more than 50 papers in top-ranked international food science journals. Locally in Iran, he has also published 10 books in Persian (mainly includes academic textbooks translated into Persian), and some of these books have been reprinted several times. Read More Read Less