Dr. Yigal Achmon is a food and agriculture scientist. He currently holds a research fellow position at the Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technion. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry and food science from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem and direct PhD in Biotechnology and Food Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Achmon spent the last three years at professor Christopher Simmon's lab, as a postdoctoral researcher. There he developed an interdisciplinary approach for industrial food waste valorization research which included collaboration with a plant scientist and a microbiologist among others. His main research areas are on food waste valorization by (1) an alternative technique to soil fumigation named soil biosolarization and (2) high solid anaerobic digestion. In both of these projects, he has utilized microbial communities as a work force platform. He has used next generation sequencing along with advanced fermentation processes to elucidate the role of these microbial communities in complex bioengineered systems (“xeno-ecological” niches).

Food Waste Valorization by 

(1) An Alternative Technique to Soil Fumigation Named Soil Biosolarization and 

(2) High Solid Anaerobic Digestion