ZABETAKIS Ioannis

obtained a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Athens (Greece) and a PhD in Food Science from the University of Leeds (UK). After a post-doc stay at the University of Durham (UK), a period of lectureship at the University of Leeds (1998-2001), and a stay as lecturer (2003-2008) and assistant professor (2008-2015) at the lab of Food Chemistry of the University of Athens, he joined the University of Limerick (Ireland) in 2015, as a lecturer on food lipids. Since 2018, he is head of the Department of Biological Sciences. The focus of his team is towards the development of functional foods and nutraceuticals against inflammation (focus on the role of polar lipids of animal origin), food security, and emerging hazards in water and food.