Dr Rena I. Kosti is a Full Professor of Human Nutrition-Epidemiology in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition at the University of Thessaly. She completed her undergraduate studies with distinction in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens. Subsequently, she obtained a Master's degree in Food Biotechnology on a NATO scholarship from the University of Reading, England. She completed her PhD thesis at the Agricultural University of Athens in the field of Human Nutrition. She has a long international career in multinational companies in Nutrition products, where she held high-level administrative positions while also serving as a scientific advisor. In 2016, she received a fellowship from the German Institute of Human Nutrition and retrained in Nutritional Epidemiology in Potsdam, Germany. She was a member of the scientific writing team of the general and special National nutritional guides "EY Dia...trofin" of the Ministry of Health. Today, she serves as a member of the scientific review committee for the National Dietary Guidelines of the Ministry of Health. Since 2026, she has been elected Vice President of the working group « Lifestyle, Psychosocial factors and atherosclerosis” of the Hellenic Atherosclerosis Society. She is a Scientific Associate of the Hellenic Health Foundation. She is an author or co-author of numerous publications in peer-reviewed national and international scientific journals and chapters of Greek and foreign language books. Dr Kosti is a reviewer in numerous scientific journals and a grant proposal reviewer for institutions such as the Ministry of Health of Israel and the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission. She participates in nationally and internationally funded research programs. In 2019, she was elected President of the "Consumption, Nutrition and Health" expert group of the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) in Paris, and she remained in this position for 6 years; today, she holds the position of Vice-President of this expert group.  In 2026, she was appointed as a member of the General Assembly of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.)

Interests: childhood obesity, dietary patterns, food consumption, wine, Mediterranean diet, NCDs

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