Dr. Odysseas Androutsos has been a Professor of Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics and Director of the Lab of Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics (CND-lab) at the Department of Nutrition-Dietetics, University of Thessaly. He has published 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and >150 oral or poster presentations in national and international scientific conferences (Scopus h-index: 39). Since 2008 he participates as the Principal Investigator, Project Manager or Member of research groups in national and international research programmes, funded by the European Commission or other bodies in Greece or self-funded actions. Dr. Androutsos is a member of the Editorial Board and reviewer in several scientific journals and reviewer in international conferences, books and research proposals for international organizations. He has supported as an external Scientific Consultant by the Ministry of Health of Malta and the National Institute of Health of Estonia the implementation of research programmes for the prevention of childhood obesity. His scientific work has received national and international awards, such as the «John M. Kinney Award» for one of his scientific papers in the field of Pediatric Nutrition. He is an elected member of the ESDN Obesity of EFAD and is lecturing in postgraduate courses, seminars and lifelong learning programmes in the field of “Nutrition and Dietetics”. Dr. Androutsos has also edited or written chapters in books, (co-)supervised >100 undergraduate or postgraduate theses and is the President or Member of educational, research or administrative committees at the University of Thessaly.

Ioanna–Panagiota Kalafati has been an Assistant Professor in genetic predispodition, nutrition and dietetics in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Thessaly, Greece. She has great experience in clinical nutrition, human genetics, gene-diet/lifestyle interactions and statistical genetics. She holds a BSc degree in “Nutrition & Dietetics” and an MSc degree in “Clinical & Public Health Nutrition”. Her PhD thesis was on gene-diet/lifestyle interactions in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. In 2019, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the field of genetics of complex traits in humans at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Since 2020, she has worked in various research projects in the field of dietetics, nutrition, and the role of genetic background in noncommunicable diseases. She has publications in scientific journals, including Nature Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, Nutrients and European Journal of Nutrition.