Prof. Dr. Janak K. Vidanarachchi is a Professor (since 2017) at the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and also a Visiting Professor at the Board of Study in Food Science and Technology and Board of Study in Animal Science, Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He received his BSc (Hons) degree from the University of Peradeniya in 1996, his MSc degree in Food Science from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2001, and his PhD degree in Microbiology from the University of New England, Australia in 2007. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Molecular Sciences (then Food Science), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden from 2012 to 2013 and as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Molecular Science (then Dept. of Food Sciences), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences from April to July 2018. Further, he also worked as a Visiting Scholar and Researcher at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden from 2019 to 2023. Prof. Dr. Vidanarachchi has over 100 publications with more than 6190 citations (from Google Scholar) and an h-index of 54. His main research areas include milk quality and safety, animal source food product development, feed science, and climate-smart agriculture.