Rank/Position: Assistant Professor, Uni.W.A.

Scientific Field: Technology and Quality Control of Meat

Faculty/Department/Research Institution: Department of Food Science and Technology, Uni.W.A.

Student Contact Hours: Monday: 9:00 –11:00 and Wednesday: 10:00 –12:00

Dafni Dimakopoulou-Papazoglou is an Agricultural Engineer specializing in Food Science and Technology, and has obtained her undergraduate (2011), postgraduate (2013) and doctoral (2019) degrees from the Food Science & Technology Sector of the Department of Agriculture, School of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From July 2019 to December 2025, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Food Science & Technology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as at the University of Western Macedonia. In addition, she has taught at the University of Western Macedonia (2020-2022) and the International Hellenic University (2022-2024).

She has received four scholarships, two for postdoctoral research, one for her doctoral thesis and one for her postgraduate studies. Furthermore, he participated as a research member of the MAH (Microbiology And Hygiene Group) in the 6th “Spin your Thesis!-2015” campaign of the European Space Agency (ESA) at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and received an Excellence Award from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She has participated in eight research projects (two European and six nationally co-funded), as well as in cooperation programs with Greek food industries. Her research interests include the development and application of new technologies in the processing and preservation of animal-based foods, the assessment and improvement of food quality and safety, the development and application of innovative fat replacement systems, the design and development of new products, the detection of the origin and adulteration of animal-based foods using multispectral techniques and machine learning algorithms, as well as the determination of the shelf life of animal-based foods. Her published work includes 17 publications in international scientific journals, while she has participated in 28 international and Greek scientific conferences with oral and poster presentations.