José Manuel Lorenzo is Head of Research at the Centro Tecnológico de la Carne (CTC), Ourense, Spain. He has a degree in Food Science and Technology from University of Vigo (1995-2000). In 2005-2006 from October to March, he completed his training with a predoctoral stay at the Stazione Sperimentale per L¿Industria delle Conserve Alimentaria (Parma, Italy). He obtained his Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology (University of Vigo) in 2006. He has started his scientific career in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Vigo, first as researcher scholarship, then, since April 2006, as academic researcher. In 2007 joined the CTC staff, developing since then an intense collaboration with the industrial sector, private companies, and research institutions as PI of several projects of R&D and innovation in Food Science area, with emphasis in Healthier and Functional Foods development. He was principal researcher in four European projects, nine national projects and fifty-eight regional projects (Galicia, NW Spain) with meat industries. Moreover, he has participated in more than 110 projects as research collaborator. He is currently leading the Network of Sustainable Regional Protein-Rich Foods (AlProSos; CYTED 125RT0165). It is a robust network comprising 229 researchers from 14 Ibero-American countries. It boasts the support of 29 research centres and universities, along with 21 companies. The network's core mission is to identify, characterise, extract, purify, functionalise, and assess the allergenicity and safety of regional alternative proteins for developing novel food products. Regarding his research experience, the quality and impact of his scientific production stands out:

1. His scientific production includes more than 1,000 research papers in well-recognized peer-reviewed international journals (SCI), with 56% of them in the first quartile (the number of publications in Q1 is higher than 500), and 283 communications to national and international congresses. His h-index is 111 with cites of 49,620 in Scopus.

2. He has edited twenty-two international books and one national. Moreover, he has written one hundred and twenty-five chapters in international and national books.

3. He has five national patents as inventor.

4. He is Chief Editor in Current Food Science and Technology Reports, and Associate Editor of five prestigious journals: Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods, Food Frontiers, Food Analytical Methods, Journal of the Science Food and Agriculture, Animal Science Journal, eFoods, Measurement: Food, Canadian Journal of Animal Science and Food Frontiers. He has also edited several Special Issues for these high impact journals to create more discussion around key aspects of functional food development: innovative technologies, functional ingredients, and food safety and quality.