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Current Members of the Dairy Science Technology Lab

Dr Photis Papademas, Assistant Professor – Dairy Science and Technology

Photis Papademas is Assistant Professor of Dairy Science and Tehcnology at the Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). He holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Food Science and a PhD in Dairy Science both from Reading University, UK. He has published numerous papers in scientific journals and he contributed with chapters in scientific books on dairy science and especially on cheese. Before joining the Department he worked for the Dairy Industry as a Quality Manager and he was a business consultant and a trainer on Food Safety Management Systems. His research interests are focused on the functionality/authenticity of dairy products, the identification, characterization, study of properties of lactic acid bacteria and finally the production of functional fermented milk.

Of special interest is the study of non-cow milk species such as goat and donkey. For a full CV please click here.

 

Maria Aspri- PhD Student

Maria has been an active member of the lab since 2013. Her PhD thesis entails the study of lactic acid bacteria isolated from donkey milk and the production of a functional milk drink. For more about her see her short CV and her project in Brief.

 

MSc Students

Melina Theocharous

Myria

Athena Hadjisavva

 

Past Members

Dr Teresa Osorio – PostDoc

Ioanna Parmaxi – MSc Student

“Fermented drink from donkey milk: Microbiological, chemical, organoleptic characteristics and functionality”. MSc Thesis, Cyprus University of Technology.

 

Collaborators from the Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, CUT

Dr Dimitris Tsaltas, Assistant Professor – Agricultural Microbiology and Biotechnology

Despina Bozoudi – Research Assistant

Dr Ouranios Tzamaloukas – Assistant Professor

Dr Vlasis Goulas-Special Teaching Staff