Seid Mahdi Jafari is a Full Professor at the Gorgan University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He completed his BS studies in Food Science and Technology at Urmiah University (1997), MS studies in Food Science and Technology at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (1999), and Ph.D. studies in Food Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland (2007). In 2015, he was awarded as one of the top 1% scientists of the world with the highest citations by Thomson Reuters (Essential Scientific Indicators) in the field of Biological Sciences, and in December 2017, he was selected as one of the top National Researchers of Iran. He has published 620 papers with 29,630 citations and an h-index of 93 (Scopus, 13 November 2023). His research topics mainly include nanoencapsulation.