Anastasia Loukri is an Agronomist with a master’s degree on “Food Chemistry and Technology” of the School of Agriculture Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). Her Master’s thesis focused on the utilization of coffee by-products for the production of innovative brews. She holds a PhD on “Incorporation of extracts of food industry by-products into edible films”. Her research interests include the valorization of by-products of the food industry towards novel food ingredients (e.g. natural antioxidants, colorants), the extraction of bioactives from natural products using green alternative solvents (e.g. β-cyclodextrin, DES), the characterization of extracts using several analytical techniques (e.g. UV-Vis, HPLC-DAD, FT-IR), the encapsulation of received bioactives compounds ( e.g. inclusion complexes, freeze drying), the bioavailability of the received bioactives compounds, the incorporation of encapsulated bioactives in food metrics and edible films and the examination of the sensory profile of products (QDA). As a master student, PhD candidate and post-doctoral researcher, she has also participated in several National projects and her work has been published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals (citations: ~108 h-index: 5)