Dr. Antonio López Gómez

Antonio López-Gómez studied agricultural engineering (1981) at the Technical University of Valencia (UPV, Spain), where he received a Ph.D. in Food Technology and Engineering in 1986. He has been a university professor and researcher since 1987 in food process engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (Spain), University of Navarra (Spain), CEMAGREF (Montpellier, France), and Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT, Spain). He is the Director of the Research Group at the UPCT, which focuses on refrigeration engineering and food safety. This group has received the Isaac Peral Award from the UPCT, the most outstanding research group in R&D Projects of this University, during the years 2006 and 2016. He is one of the founders (in 2002) and has presided over the Spanish Society of Refrigeration Sciences and Techniques (SECYTEF) since then, which brings together the most outstanding Spanish researchers in this field. He is a member of Commission D1 (and before of B2 Commission) of the International Institute of Refrigeration (since 1992 to the present). He is the associated editor of the "Food Engineering Reviews" (an international journal of Q1 in the field of food science and technology). He received the National Research Prize 2017 in Aquaculture (Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) for his work of applying ice with nanoencapsulated agents to improve animal welfare and conserve farmed fresh fish quality.