Dr. Yigal Achmon is a food and agriculture scientist. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry and food science from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem and direct Ph.D. in Biotechnology and Food Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He spent three years at Professor Christopher Simmon’s lab at the University of California at Davis as a postdoctoral researcher. There he had developed an interdisciplinary approach to industrial food waste valorization research. He had done a postdoctoral at Volacni Israeli agricultural center, working on the microbiome of fresh cow milk.