Prof. Athanasia Goula is an Associate Professor of Food Processing Design and Optimization, Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her Bachelor's degree in 1996 and her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2005. In 2006, she obtained a degree in Quality Management from the Open University of Greece. She joined the Department of Food Science and Technology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as a lecturer in 2010 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2015 and to Associate Professor in 2019. Her research interests include design of drying processes, modeling of drying processes, food processing using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes, development of pilot-scale processing equipment, management and valorization of food waste, drying and thermal treatment processes, and modeling of nutrient destruction.