Dr. Gulzar Ahmad Nayik completed his Master’s Degree in Food Technology from Islamic University of Science & Technology, Awantipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India and PhD from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Sangrur, Punjab, India. He has published over 55 peer-reviewed research and review papers, 30 book chapters, edited three books in Springer Nature & Elsevier and one textbook, and has delivered number of presentations at various national and international conferences, seminars, workshops, and webinars. Dr Nayik also fills the roles of editor, associate editor, assistant editor and reviewer for many food science and technology journals. Modassar Ranjha is a young Food Science researcher. He has authored and co-authored many papers in various international journals. He has also contributed book chapters in various books. His preliminary research focuses on Extraction of Phytoconstituents from Agro Wastes by Green Extraction Techniques. He has preliminary worked on Sonication and Maceration Techniques. He is currently working on a couple of papers and book chapters on green extraction and non-thermal technologies. Professor, Xin-An Zeng is currently dean of School of Food Science and Engineering in South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, PR China. He is Associate Editor of “Journal of Food Processing and Preservation”. He is also the State-Level Appraisal Judge as a wine taster of China alcoholic drinks industry association, reviewer of S&T Award of Chinese ministry of science and technology, respectively. He was selected as one of the “Leader Talents” by ministry of science and technology, “excellent talents in the new century” by Chinese ministry of education. Currently his major research areas are focusing on green processing of foods by application of non-thermal technologies such as pulsed electric field and ultrasonic, as well as R&D and tasting of wines and vinegars produced from different subtropical fruits. He has published over 115 SCI and EI indexed papers. He has applied over 70 Chinese’s patents and about 40 of them have been approved. He has received five academic awards. Shafeeqa Irfan has earned her MSc (Hons.) from University of Sargodha, Sargodha, and is working as Research officer at National Alliance Safe Food- Pakistan. Additionally, she works as Project Coordinator at The Nutrition Times. She has been among the productive team member in various activities. She has presented in various national/ international conferences. She has published many review papers in the journal of International repute and many book chapters. She has worked on bioactive components of the food. Dr Zahra is Lecturer at Department of Environmental Design Health and Nutritional Sciences, Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, Pakistan. She is also in-charge of Food Processing Lab at ED, H&N Sciences, AIOU, Islamabad, Pakistan. She is also Managing Director and Co-founder of Nutrition Times. Dr Zahra has published 40 National and International research/review papers including 13 abstracts in conference proceedings. Dr Zahra is member of PSFST, NAFS and ADA. She has organised many national and international seminars, conferences and awareness camps, in far reach rural and urban areas to empower females as per health and entrepreneurial startups.

• 1. Sonication: An overview 2. Microwave: An overview 3. Synergistic Effect of Sonication and Microwave: An overview 4. Synergistic Effect Application of Sonication and Microwave in Dairy Industry 5. Synergistic Effect Application of Sonication and Microwave in Meat Industry 6. Synergistic Effect Application of Sonication and Microwave in Juice processing 7. Synergistic Effect Application of sonication and microwave for inhibition of microorganism 8. Synergistic Effect Application of sonication and microwave for deactivation of enzymes 9. Sonication Microwave Synergistic Extraction of Bioactive compounds from plants, animals and other agro-industrial waste sources 10. Sonication Microwave Synergistic Extraction of oils from plant sources 11. Sonication Microwave Synergistic Extraction of proteins from plant sources and its effect on proteins. 12. Sonication Microwave Synergistic Extraction of pectin from plant sources 13. Synergistic effects of sonication and microwave on safety and quality 14. Synergistic effect of sonication and microwave on shelf life 15. Synergistic effect of sonication and microwave on Physio-chemical and textural properties 16. Synergistic effect of sonication and microwave on extraction of bioactive peptides 17. Recent advances in applications of sonication-microwave 18. Opportunities and Challenges of sonication-microwave for food processing, preservation and extraction: An Industrial Point of View 19. Effect of synergism of sonication and microwave on fermentation & emulsification