Nikolaos G. Stoforos, a Chemical Engineer (National Technical University of Athens, 1978), is Professor in Food Engineering - Food Preservation at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, of Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece (2016-present). He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering (1988) and a Master of Science in Food Science (1984) from the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and the Department of Food Science and Technology at University of California, Davis, USA, respectively. He worked as Research Engineer at the National Food Processors Association, Western Research Laboratory, Process Technologies Division, Dublin, CA, USA, (1989 – 1992), the Department of Food and Microbial Technology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium, (1994 – 1995) and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, (1996 – 2000). From 2000 till 2009 he served as an Assistant Professor in Food Process Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and from 2009 to 2015 as Associate Professor at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at AUA His research interests refer to safety and quality evaluation of foods with main focus on mathematical/kinetic modeling of safety and quality attribute changes during food processing or storage. His research focuses on food processing and preservation with emphasis on thermal processing (thermal process calculation methodologies, aseptic processing, time-temperature integrators), high pressure processing, predictive microbiology, and kinetic modeling at dynamic temperature conditions. He has published 45 research papers in peer reviewed journals, 9 book chapters, 19 chapters in international and 29 in national conference proceedings and 42 presentations in international meetings. He is the author of one book, has been co-editor of 5 books and 2 special issue journals and has over 1200 citations (h index=16).