Yigal Achmon is an Associate Professor at the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology, specializing in food waste treatment and prevention. His research focuses on the interactions between organic materials and the microorganisms that metabolize them, with a particular interest in how these relationships can be studied through the volatiles emitted during the metabolic process. Yigal earned his PhD in Biotechnology and Food Engineering at Prof. Ayelet Fishman’s lab, where he worked on biotechnological processes for producing 2-phenylethanol. He then continued his research on sustainable agriculture in Prof. Christopher Simmons’ lab at the University of California, Davis.