Yannis Manios, PhD | Professor, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece

Dr. Yannis Manios is Professor in the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, School of Health Science & Education at Harokopio University in Athens. His research interests focus on the nutritional assessment, designing and implementation of interventions and clinical trials for children and adults aiming to improve health indices and health-related behaviors to prevent obesity, cardiometabolic risk factors and osteoporosis. Since 2001 he is actively involved as Principal Investigator in national and European programs, such as FP5: PHYTOHEALTH, FP6: HELENA, FP7: ENERGY, HabEat, Full4Health, Food4Me, ODIN, HORIZON2020: SWEET, GATEKEEPER, FNS-CLOUD, HORIZON EUROPE: Plan’Eat, he has been the coordinator for the ToyBox-study (FP7) and Feel4Diabetes-study (H2020), while currently is the coordinator for the DigiCare4You-study (H2020).

Dr Manios has published seven academic manuscripts and book chapters, as well as over 620 scientific papers published in international scientific journals with more than 33.200 citations (h-index 70), while he has also received 11 awards for his scientific work by national and international organizations.

Dr Manios has been a member of the ILSI Europe Expert Group (since 2010), of the Scientific Committee for the development of “Greek Nutritional Guidelines” for children and adults coordinated by Prolepsis Institute and funded by the Greek Ministry of Health (since 2012), of the Joint Action “Knowledge Hub on DEterminants of DIet and Physical Activity” (DEDIPAC-KH) (since 2013), of the Scientific Committee of the National Network of Healthy Municipalities & Cities-Health Promotion (since 2011), of the Scientific Group for the National Nutritional Policy of Greece (since 2011) as well as of the National Public Health Council (2011-2014).