Agricultural Engineer and Food Scientist (MSc, PhD), Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Edible Fungi of Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products (ITAP), Hellenic Agricultural Organisation – Dimitra, in Athens, Greece. Basic studies at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), at the University of Bristol (MSc) on Food Science and Technology-Microbiology, and at the Food Science and Technology Faculty of University of Budapest. PhD studies in the Laboratory of Chemistry and Food Analysis of Food Science and Technology Department of AUA. Reviewer in international scientific journals, participant in 15 research projects and author of 50 scientific articles in reviewed journals, 3 book chapters, and more than 100 papers and written contributions in scientific journals and congresses. Number of citations in the Scopus database (self-citations of selected author excluded) > 1.700.