Vasilis Sapounas

Education and training

Studies

  • Integrated master’s in Food Science and Human Nutrition

    Agricultural University of Athens

    to present

Training

  • Research internship

    FrieslandCampina, Wageningen, the Netherlands

    to

    Whey protein aggregation

  • Internship, Flavour and Food Ingredients Department

    VIORYL Chemical & Agricultural Industry, Research S.A.

    Worked on new product development (flavours, food ingredients, emulsions), the reformulation of smoke flavourings for new EU regulations, and sustainable sourcing of ingredients and flavours.

    to

Certificates

  • Dairy Academy 2025

    AEDIL Dairy CoVE

    5 ECTS

  • Inspire 4 Ecotrophelia

    EIT Food

  • Olive and olive oil: training in organoleptic and chemical analyses

    Centre for Training and Lifelong Learning, Agricultural University of Athens

    120 hours (4.8 ECTS)

  • Artificial Intelligence Summer School 2024

    Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies, held at NCSR Demokritos

  • Open Lab Hours: quality analyses in aquaculture

    EU-CONEXUS

    15 hours

  • Geoinformatics and Digital Geospatial Technologies in the Practice of Agriculture and Environmental Protection

    Centre for Training and Lifelong Learning, Agricultural University of Athens

    70 hours (2.8 ECTS)

  • Training school: waste biorefinery towards a sustainable circular bioeconomy

    Agricultural University of Athens

  • Certificate of Proficiency in English

    University of Michigan

  • Diplôme approfondi de langue française (DALF), C2

    Ministère de l’Éducation nationale

Memberships

  • Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST)

    to present

  • Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

    to

Languages

  • Greek and English, bilingual

  • French, C2

Techniques

  • High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

  • DPPH antioxidant assay

  • Agar-based microbiological methods

  • Biochemical characterisation

  • Sequence analysis with BLAST

  • Predictive modelling

  • Statistical analysis in Python and R

  • HACCP implementation

  • Sensory evaluation

  • Geographic information systems (QGIS, ArcGIS)