PhD student

e-mail: VXK709@student.bham.ac.uk

Vasiliki received her BSc in Food Science & Nutrition from the University of The Aegean (Greece) in 2016. During her studies she did a working placement in the R&D department of one of the largest food companies in Greece, YIOTIS S.A. (2013). In 2015, she worked on the utilisation of pollen grains as an encapsulation vehicle, through Erasmus placement, at the University of Birmingham. In 2017, she began her PhD as part of the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP), funded by BBSRC. As part of her PhD programme, she has worked on the creation of a lab-on-a-chip platform to study circadian rhythms of mammalian cells, at the University of Warwick, as well as on how learning and memory affect our food choices, at the University of Birmingham. Furthermore, she has been working as a facility manager assistant in MicrobesNG, a next generation sequencing company based in Birmingham. Her PhD project begun in 2018, involving microbial encapsulation in microfluidics for factory-on-a-chip applications. Her research interests include observing in micro-scale and understanding, how different food processes and specifically thermal treatments, affect bacteria. Altering such food processes accordingly to make them more efficient, or even developing new ones, could be extremely important for safer and cheaper food products.