Marco Jermini
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Education
Dr. Marco Jermini (born October 4, 1957), has graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland with an engineering degree in Food Science.
He has an impressive career in the field of food science, beginning with a PhD from the Food Microbiology Lab in Zurich
Courses of specialisation
Before being responsible for the Department of Food Microbiology at the Laboratorio Cantonale, Ticino, Switzerland in 1987, he attended many specialized courses: “Microbiology and infectious disease” at the Harvard University in Cambridge; “Industrial microbiology” and “Applied Enzimology” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, “Hydrogeology” at the University of Geneva, “Food Microscopy” at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and “Food Toxicology” at the University of Lausanne.
Since 2003 he is the Director and Chemical Engineer for the Laboratorio Cantonale.
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He has been Food Safety Regional Advisor for the European Center for Environment and Health of WHO (World Health Organization), and a member of the European Center for Environmental Health-Rome Division.
As a member of the Swiss Disaster Relief Unit partially in cooperation with WHO he has been a consultant on projects in Rwanda, Viet Nam, Iran, Tanzania, Moldova, Albania, Zambia and Swaziland.
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He has been a consultant for FAO in Uzbekistan and for WHO in Palestine, Albania and Kazakistan.
Dr. Jermini is also a member of the Swiss Federal Commission for Food Science and Safety and a member of the National Committee Codex Alimentarius.
He has published extensively.