Rena I. Kosti | University of Thessaly

Dr Rena I. Kosti is a Professor of “Human Nutrition -Epidemiology” and Vice-President of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Thessaly. She holds an M.Sc. degree in “Food and Agricultural Biotechnology”, University of Reading and a PhD degree in “Nutritional Epidemiology”, Agricultural University of Athens. She has a long international career in multinational companies in Nutrition products in which she held a scientific managerial position. She was a Scientific expert in Organic Farming and Nutrition at the National Center for the Environment & Sustainable Development (NCESD) and member of the scientific writing team of the general and special National nutritional guides “EY Dia…trofin” of the Ministry of Health. She is a Scientific Associate of the Hellenic Health Foundation. She has numerous scientific papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, author and co-author of Greek and foreign books, member of the editorial board and reviewer in numerous scientific journals, and research proposals for institutions such as the Ministry of Health of Israel and the European Commission. In 2019, she was elected President of the “Consumption, Nutrition and Health” expert group of the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) in Dijon. She is a member of its Scientific and Technical Committee as the scientific representative of Greece, a position she still holds today.