Prof.  Murad A. Al-Holy graduated with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Nutrition and Food Technology from the University of Jordan and got his PhD from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Washington State University in 2003. He is currently a Professor of Food Microbiology and Dean of  the Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences at the Hashemite University. He has received several awards and scholarships; most importantly, the Fulbright scholarship and the Abdulhameed Shuman Foundation award for the most distinguished researcher in the Arab world. He has almost 100 publications with more than 3500 citations and an h-index of 28 (Scopus, 15 December 2023). .