ERX编委访谈|南非斯坦陵布什大学Alemayehu Ambaw Tsige博士

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I was drawn to engineering at the point where it meets living systems. Postharvest science poses a deceptively hard engineering problem: a fruit is a heterogeneous, porous, biologically active material in which heat, mass, and gas transport govern whether it reaches a consumer or is lost. Roughly a third of all food produced is wasted, much of it after harvest, so the stakes are simultaneously scientific and humanitarian. Coming from a context where food security is pressing, I found it compelling that rigorous transport-phenomena modelling and computational simulation could turn an opaque biological process into something we can predict, design for, and ultimately improve. That combination of mathematical depth and tangible impact is what has kept me in the field.

2. 您目前从事的研究工作有哪些？

3. 您认为五年后该领域的研究重点将会是什么？

I expect the field to converge on digital twins of produce and the cold chain: physically grounded simulations updated in real time by sensor data. A major driver will be hybrid modelling, where mechanistic transport models are fused with physics-informed machine learning to gain speed without sacrificing interpretability. I also anticipate genuine multiscale coupling, from microstructure through to supply-chain logistics, becoming routine rather than exceptional. Sustainability will reshape priorities too: energy-efficient storage, the transition to low-impact refrigerants, and life-cycle-aware design. Finally, I expect a strong push to democratise these computational tools so that researchers and industries everywhere, including in resource-constrained settings, can apply them.

4. 是什么吸引您加入Engineering Research Express期刊编委团队?

What attracts me is the alignment between the journal’s philosophy and my own convictions about how engineering science should be communicated. Engineering Research Express is explicitly broad and interdisciplinary, which is exactly where applied work like postharvest and biosystems engineering lives, often falling between the remits of more narrowly scoped journals. I value its commitment to assessing work on scientific rigour and validity rather than perceived impact, and its inclusive stance toward interdisciplinary, null, negative, and replication studies. As a researcher based in Africa, I am also motivated by the journal’s global, inclusive outlook, and I would welcome the opportunity to help ensure that rigorous research from across regions and disciplines finds a fair and constructive home.

5. 您认为像Engineering Research Express这样的期刊对领域的发展有什么重要影响？

Journals of this kind play a quietly transformative role. By offering an inclusive, multidisciplinary home, they give visibility to work that genuinely advances knowledge but does not fit the narrow “high-novelty” framing of selective titles, including sound negative results and replications that are essential to a healthy evidence base. Their emphasis on rigour over hype strengthens trust in the literature at a time when that trust matters enormously. A fast, transparent review process accelerates the dissemination of useful findings to both researchers and industry. Perhaps most importantly, by representing engineering scientists worldwide, they widen who gets to contribute to the field, which makes the discipline itself more robust and more representative.

• 2025年影响因子：1.8  Citescore: 2.1
• Engineering Research Express（ERX,《工程研究快讯》)是一本涵盖工程科学所有领域的多学科期刊，致力于发表新的实验和理论研究。ERX对文章长度的具有灵活性并采用快速同行评审政策。发表范围涵盖：电气工程（包括控制工程、量子工程、电子工程、光学工程、电力工程、机器人和半导体工程）、 机械工程（包括航空工程、汽车工程、材料工程和真空工程）、土木工程（包括环境工程、水利工程、海洋和地理工程、结构工程）、化学工程（包括生物工程、食品科学、化学合成和精炼，以及微加工）等方面。