Professor Anu Hopia, Functional Foods Forum (FFF), Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku (UTU), Turku, Finland. anu.hopia@utu.fi +358503789919

Prof. Hopia works as research professor of food development in University of Turku and holds also adjunct proferssorship (docent) in food science at University of Helsinki.  AH is a team leader of a 9-member research group Taste and Health  (located in South Ostrobothnia as part of Soth Ostrobothnian University network). She is PI of several on-going projects funded by Academy of Finland, Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, EU etc. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California Davis (USA).  AH has published 70+ academic papers on food science and several books and articles on popular science.