About

Fotios Lytras is a food scientist and technologist from Athens (Greece) with a theoretical background and industrial experience in the field. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Technology from the University of West Attica (Greece) in 2019 and his master’s degree in Food Technology – Quality Assurance from the University of Reading (United Kingdom) in 2020. During his studies, he had his first hands-on experiences in the field of research where he studied the “Optimization of Polyphenol Extraction from Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum through Response Surface Methodology” as an undergraduate student and the “Oxidative stress response of regulators in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria” as a master’s student. Currently, he is employed as a PhD at the University of Malta (Malta) where he is working on Microbial Responses (PhD) research project with the main focus on quantification of the microbial reduction and the characterization of the molecular resistance mechanisms after Pulsed Electric Field Technology application.