Qualifications
- PhD: Food Microbiology/Biotechnology
- HACCP: ISO 22000
- Food Safety Expert Witness
Latest publications
- The effect of milking frequency, breed, and stage of lactation on the milk fat globule size and fatty acid composition in sheep’s milk. - Foods. 2023
- Use of transposon directed insertion-site sequencing to probe the antibacterial mechanism of a model honey on E. coli K-12 - Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022
- Mechanism of antimicrobial activity of honeybee (Apis mellifera) venom on Gram-negative bacteria: Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas spp. - AMB Express. 2021
- Synergistic antifungal activity and substitution of sorbate with cyclodextrin‐based aqueous extracts of propolis bioactives - Journal of Food Processing and Preservation. 2021
- Use of a model to understand the synergies underlying the antibacterial mechanism of H2O2-producing honeys - Scientific reports. 2020
- The antimicrobial mechanism of Greek thyme honeys against methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates: a case study of comparison with Manuka honey - International Journal of Food Science & Technology.
About
Maria joined us in 2022 as a Food & Drink Risk Consultant (Regulatory Science).
Before this, Maria worked as Scientific Officer (Regulatory Science) at EFSA (Pesticides Peer Review Unit), Researcher/ Investigator (Post-Doc Fellow) at Procter and Gamble, a Research Fellow at UTC (France) and KRIBB (Korea), and a Consultant (Food Analysis) at Interlab.
Maria is a certified Food Safety Expert Witness.
Areas of interest
- Food safety and regulatory compliance
- Food contamination/food poisoning / foodborne illness
- Food manufacturing and food processing
- Risk assessment (chemical, biological, physical contaminants)
- Supply chain resilience
- Novel foods
- Food additives
Specific areas of expertise
- Risk assessment (biological, chemical, physical hazards)
- Product development and regulatory compliance
- Authorisation process
- Supply chain
- Oenology
- Intellectual property
Other activities within industry
- Food Safety Expert Witness