Prof. Maria Kapsokefalou

Maria Kapsokefalou is a Professor in Human Nutrition at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA). She is the Director of the Institute of Agriculture and Food of the AUA Research Center, the Director of the Graduate Program “Food, Nutrition, and Health”, and the Director of the Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Analysis at AUA. She is a member of the Board of the European Food Information Council (Eufic) and a member of the Board of Directors of European Food Information Resource (EuroFIR) AISBL. She has served as the Deputy Rector on Student Affairs, Academic Collaborations, and Outreach at AUA and as a member of various state bodies on food and nutrition policy and research strategy at the national level. Following a BSc in Chemistry at the University of Athens, she pursued her graduate studies in Food Science and Nutrition at Cornell University as a Fulbright Scholar. She received her MSc in 1989 and PhD in 1992 and continued her scientific development in Nutrition at Cornell University, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, as a recipient of the Nutricia Research Foundation International Training Fellowship, at ETH Zurich as a visitor, and at the University of Crete as a Researcher and Lecturer in Food Science and Nutrition until 2000. In 2001, she joined the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the Agricultural University of Athens.