Dr Sotirios Kiokias is a PhD in the area of Food Chemistry and Nutrition (University of Reading/UK). In his early career (2002-2006) he performed EU funded postdoctoral research at Unilever R&D (The Netherlands) and National Technical University of Athens. In the period 2006-2016 he was employed as scientific expert by various EU Institutions (DG Enterprise & European Chemicals Agency/Finland). Since 2017, Dr Kiokias is a Research Program manager at the European Research Executive Agency of European Commission (Brussels), serving as the Coordinator of Chemistry Panel in MSCA-Staff exchanges Action. Dr Kiokias has published more than 40 scientific publications in international journals/book chapters and participated in a large number of International Food & Chemistry relevant Conferences