Eleni Sakantani is Special Technical Laboratory Staff at the Department of Food Science & Technology of the Ionian University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Technologies from TEI Messolonghi and an MSc in Food, Nutrition and Microbiome from the Democritus University of Thrace, and she is currently a PhD candidate at Ionian University. Prior to her current appointment, she worked as an agronomist technologist at the Directorate of Rural Development of Kefalonia & Ithaca and at the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Kefalonia & Ithaca, and served as a laboratory associate at the TEI of Epirus and the TEI of the Ionian Islands. Her research interests focus on the technology and quality of foods of animal origin. She has authored peer-reviewed publications and has participated in numerous international and national scientific conferences, and has contributed as a member of research teams in several research projects in the field of food science and technology.