Officer in the Risk Assessment and Scientific Assistance Directorate, Evidence Management Unit at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). He is leading the Exposure Tam which is responsible for the collection and analysis of food consumption data and for the development and application of new methodologies for dietary exposure assessment. In this context, he carries out or supervises the assessment of exposure to different type of chemicals in food and animal feed (e.g. contaminants,  flavourings, food additives, packaging residues, nutrients, and pesticides) for stand-alone reports or in support of EFSA panels or units.
Mr. Arcella holds a master’s degree in statistical and demographic sciences from “La Sapienza” University (Rome, Italy); he has worked in the area of food safety since 1998. In particular, he is an expert in food consumption data and dietary exposure assessment. He started his career at the Italian National Research Institute for Food and Nutrition (INRAN), where he worked as a scientist for almost 10 years. In 2007 he joined EFSA and became a member of the FAO/WHO roster of JECFA experts for exposure assessment of chemicals in food.

Leif Busk is presently working as a Scientific Adviser at the Swedish National Food Agency (NFA). He has lately been involved in the development and application of the principles of risk analysis with emphasis on risk ranking, the influence of other legitimate factors and risk communication at NFA. Within the European framework he has been involved in methods for exposure assessments with a special interest in tools for Food Description and Categorisation. Among other things he chaired the EFSA Working Group that developed FoodEx2.
Dr Busk obtained his basic training as a Toxicologist at Uppsala University and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He has more than forty years of experience in regulatory toxicology from the pharmaceutical and food sector, working both as researcher, risk assessor and manager. Leif Busk has been the Swedish representative in the Advisory Forum of EFSA since the start in 2003.

Ms Eleonora Dupouy, Doctor in Food Science and Technologies and Associate Professor in Public Nutrition. Since 2009 holds the position of Food Safety and Consumer Protection Officer with the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, Budapest, Hungary – responsible for planning, leading and coordinating the implementation of the regular and field programme in Food Safety and Nutrition, including provision of technical support, policy advice, and capacity development.

Before joining FAO, Ms Dupouy held the position of Head of Food Science and Nutrition Department at the Technical University of Moldova, taught courses of Human Nutrition, Food Toxicology and Safety and conducted research with focus on new foods development with increased functionality, reduction of anti-nutritional properties of new functional ingredients of plant-origin.

Dr Gaby-Fleur Böl is Head of the interdisciplinary Department Risk Communication at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin since 2006 and also teaches at the University of Potsdam. She studied biochemistry in Hannover, where she completed her doctorate in cellular signal transduction at the Hannover Medical School. She then went on to receive her post doctorate degree on the relationship between diet and cancer at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE). In the area of consumer health protection, the Department of Risk Communication at the BfR is in charge of a participative dialogue with interests groups ranging from politics, science, industry, the public sector, associations, media, non-governmental organisations and consumers.
BfR risk communication focuses on risk perception, how to handle perceived risks and scientific uncertainty as well as the evaluation of risk communication measures in areas such as novel technologies, e.g. nano technology, or the differentiation between food supplements and medicinal products.

Dr Ada Hočevar Grom

Deputy Director

National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), Slovenia

Prof dr Mirjana Hruškar, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb received her PhD in 2001 in field of Biotechnical Sciences at the same Faculty.
Since 1992 she works in the Laboratory for Food Quality Control where she participates in scientific research and teaching in the field of food analysis, quality control, safety, sensory analysis and traceability to this day.
Prof dr Mirjana Hruškar is co-author of 45 scientific papers and has participated in 63 international scientific conferences. She is co-author of the university handbook. She coordinated many undergraduate, graduate and several master and doctoral thesis. She has participated in nine scientific projects.
She is a member of the Croatian Dairy Association, Croatian Society of Food Technologists, Biotechnologists and Nutritionists (CROFOST) and a member of Croatian Journal of Food Technology, Biotechnology and Nutrition editorial board.
She was the president of Faculty’s Quality Assurance Committee; member of Student Research Committee; Committee for Textbooks, Manuals and Scripts; Graduate Thesis Committee.
2007-2011 she was Vice-dean for education, president of Education Committee and member of Quality Management Commission. 2011-2015 PhD Mirjana Hruškar was Dean of Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb.
She is a member of the Biotechnical Area Council, extended Rector’s Collegium, president of the Quality Assurance Committee and a member of several working groups and commissions at the University of Zagreb. She is a member of CROFOST directing board, member of Council for Monitoring in the Food Industry Agricultural Processing Sector of the Ministry of Agriculture and the president of the Croatian Food Agency’s Scientific Committee.
She won the Annual Award for Scientific Research (Society of University Professors and Other Scientists in Zagreb) and the Award for the long-term and successful cooperation and remarkable contribution to the higher education, science and profession promotion (Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology).

Professor Ivica Kisić has published cited scientific papers with 154 scientists from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Montenegro, Czech, Finland, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, China, Macedonia, Germany, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and USA. So far, as the author or co-author, he has published eight books, and is also the author or co-author of 19 chapters in scientific and professional books. He has participated in 166 scientific papers, as well as 303 technical papers, studies and expertise relating to issues of soil management and protection. A complete list of works can be seen in the Croatian scientific bibliographic database web site (http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=174323).
He participated in drafting Croatian Acts and Regulations governing organic farming, as well as the Agricultural Land Act and Regulations regarding soil contamination. He is a member of the National Council for Organic Agriculture and the National Council for Combating Desertification.
He received the annual Croatian Waters award for the best dissertation in 1998, as well as the annual Croatian Waters award for the best scientific paper published in 2006. He received the Honorary Advisor award granted by the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary. He received – awards (Eco Oscar) on the occasion of World Environment Day, awarded by the Ministry of Environment and Nature for achievements in environmental protection in the 2012th year. Also, he got the annual award for science given by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the 2012th year.

Zdenko Lončarić was born on November 17^th 1964 in Osijek and graduated at Faculty of Agriculture April 20^th 1989. In 1988, as a graduate student completed an internship at Landessaatzuchtanstalt der Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart.
He has been employed at the Faculty of Agriculture since November 15^th 1992, first as an assistant lecturer in Plant nutrition, and since 1997 in Agrochemistry, Ecophysiology and Fertilization.
At the Faculty of Agriculture of postgraduate studies Plant Protection he finished Master degree in 1996, and his doctoral thesis Mathematical modeling of winter wheat was defended on  September 24^th in 1999.
He was elected for assistant professor in Plant Nutrition and Fertilization  in November 30^th 2000, for associate professor in 2006, full professor in 2009, and the permanent full professor in 2015.
In the period 2005 to 2013, he was vice dean for science, and since January 2009 the Head of the Department of Agroecology. Since 2012 he is the President of the Governing Council of College of Agriculture in Križevci.
He published 154 published scientific papers, university textbook Plant Nutrition, 6 university manuals and 6 internal scripts. He has participated in 92 scientific conferences with 32 oral presentations, 95 papers and 99 abstracts.
He has led two national and five other research projects, two bilateral international projects, one international IPA project and he was associate it to other 11 different projects. He was coordinator for Croatia within the COST Action FA0905 Mineral-improved crop production for healthy food and feed.
He led the 7 doctoral theses and 25 graduate theses. He speaks and uses English and German languages.
He is married and has three children.

Dr.Miranda Šeput, scientific advisor, is the senior expert adviser in the Department for monitoring ofagricultural land inthe Agricultural Land Agency. She graduated on the Faculty of Agriculture in Osijek, get master’s degree on the Faculty of Agriculturein Zagreb;she wrote her doctoral thesis genetic specificity of corn mineral nutrition and defended at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Josip JurajStrossmayer in Osijek.
She is registered scientist in the Ministry of Science and Technology scientific field agronomy,registration number 102205 from 1980. She is scientific adviser in scientific field of agronomy, scientific area biotechnical sciences from 2010.
During her professional career, she worked in the Belje PIK in the Department of Science as an expert associate, and since 1993 as a research expert associate. She was team leader of Scientific Research and Development Sector at Belje, and member of the Board of Belje d.d. until 2003 From 2003 to 2007 she was director of the Institute for Soil.
Since 2007, she is a senior expert advisor at the Institute for Soil, which integrates the Croatian Centre for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and from 2013 the Agency for agricultural land.
She is a member of several expert committees on Regulations for the recognition and protection varieties of agricultural plants, the Agricultural Land Act and other Regulations related to the soil issues.
During profesional carieer she published 35 scientific papers and 26 professional papers. She led and participated in scientific research projects of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, and the Ministry of Agriculture of Croatia.
She is a member of Croatian Society of Soil Science, the Croatian Ecological Association, the Croatian Society of Agronomists, the Croatian Society for the Protection of water, sea, and the European Society of Agronomy (ESA).