Mary Yannakoulia is a Professor of Nutrition and Eating Behaviour in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece. Her research interests are related to factors that influence human eating behavior, adherence to diet and lifestyle interventions, as well as diet and aging/cognitive decline. Specifically, she has been involved in research aimed at investigating potential associations between diet and cognitive decline (and frailty) in older and middle-aged adults, mainly in two Greek cohorts, the HELIAD and the ALBION cohorts. In 2009 she received a Fulbright research award for studying the effect of the Mediterranean diet on metabolic markers at Beth Israel and Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. She has been the PI in 6 research projects with national or international funding and, in many others, the co-PI or collaborator. She has co-authored 230 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals (> 5,775 citations; h-factor 38).