Rank/Position: Associate Professor, University of Thessaly

Scientific Field: Quality, Safety & Technology of Animal Sourced Foods

Faculty/Department/Research Institution: Department of Animal Science, University of Thessaly

Eleni Malissiova is a graduate of the Veterinary Medicine Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, majoring in Food Hygiene and Technology of Animal Sourced Foods since 2002. She holds two postgraduate degrees, MSc Food Safety, Hygiene and Management (University of Birmingham) and MSc European Food Regulatory Affairs (Ulster University), while she holds a PhD in Milk Hygiene with an emphasis on nutrition and health claims of organic milk, from the School of Medicine of the University of Thessaly. Eleni Malissiova has over a decade of professional experience in Greece and abroad, both in the private and public sectors, as well as teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Greece and abroad, as well as in adult vocational education.

Since 2010, she has been serving in higher education, initially at the Department of Food Technology of the Technical University of Thessaly and since 2019 at the Department of Animal Production Science of the University of Thessaly, where she teaches Technology and Quality Control of Milk and Products, Technology and Quality Control of Meat, Food Safety, Quality Assurance and Food Legislation, as well as Professional Ethics. She has significant research work with publications in prestigious international journals, conference presentations and presentations as an invited speaker in Greece and abroad, while participating in and/or coordinating a series of research and educational programs.