Journal of Food Processing & Technology

Athanasia M. Goula

Biography

Athanasia Goula is an Assistant Proffessor in Design and Optimization of Food Processing in the Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her bachelor’s (1996) and Ph.D. (2005) degrees from the Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and her M.Sc. (2006) degree in Quality Management from the Hellenic Open University. She has worked as chemical engineer in an industry of canned vegetables and salads (1997-1998), as post doctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2005-2007), as Research Associate in the Laboratory of Food Process Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2007-2010) and as a Lecturer in the Department of Quality Control and Trade of Agricultural Products of the Technological Institute of West Macedonia and in the Department of Food Technology of the Technological Institute of Larissa (2005-2009). She took a Lecturer position in the Department of Food Science and Technology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2010. Her research interests include the design of drying processes, the modeling of food processing using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes, the development of pilot scale processing equipment and the modelling of nutrient destruction during drying and thermal processing. She is the author/co-author of 27 peer-reviewed publications (SCI journals) and 28 contributions to national and international conferences with more than 450 citations (h-index=15).

Research Interest

Spray drying of food, Modelling of food processing using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes, Development of pilot scale processing equipment, Modelling of nutrient destruction during drying and thermal processing