Dr Anastasia Ktenioudaki

Anastasia is a lecturer and a research supervisor across a range of programmes in SETU and on several subject areas related to food and agricultural science, lab sciences, and research methods. She has supervised several students at all levels (degree, postgraduate) and she has trained postdoctoral researchers on food analysis methods, shelf-life studies, hyperspectral imaging, rheology, thermo-physical analysis, and data analysis methods. She is currently Programme Leader for the MSc in Sustainable Agri-food systems. 

Anastasia’s research projects have mainly been in the areas of food engineering and food science focusing on the development of new quantitative and qualitative methodologies for assessing product quality, monitoring shelf-life and investigating physicochemical and nutritional properties of food and food molecular structure. Anastasia is a former Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow, having completed her global fellowship at University College Dublin and University of South Florida, USA, focusing on an innovative systems approach to address existing agri-food supply chain waste. Past funding in this area includes the Science Foundation Ireland’s Future Innovator Prize programme: Food Challenge, which led to the development of Eye-Q, an intelligent optical freshness profiler, using optical sensing and artificial intelligence technology to accurately predict quality and remaining shelf-life of strawberries. 

Research & funding awards include:

• SETU, Research Connexions, Pathway 5: Publication Fund Support Scheme 
• Enterprise Ireland, Horizon Europe coordinator support 
• Human Capitan Initiative grant, Postgraduate course development (MSc and postgraduate diploma in science in sustainable agri-food systems) (€112k).
• T & L National Forum for the enhancement of teaching, Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement (SATLE) - VR-TerraSuite: Land Sciences Immersive Virtual Learning Suite 
• SETU, Research Connexions, Pathway 3: Grant Preparation Support Scheme 
• Enterprise Ireland, Regional Enterprise Innovation Scoping Scheme (REISS) - The Agro-Systems Innovation and Growth Lighthouse 
• EIT Food Seedbed Incubator Programme – Shelf-life monitoring 
• Enterprise Ireland - Commercialisation Fund, feasibility grant 
• SFI Future Innovator Prize - Food Challenge – Eye-Q (Co-Lead) 
• Enterprise Ireland - Career FIT  
• Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellowship: European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme 
• Irish Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Marine, FIRM Plus programme 
• Awarded Teagasc Walsh Fellowship Scholarship to fund PhD 

Publications - Career Summary

Book Chapters (1); Refereed articles (17); Conference proceedings (5); Technical articles (3); Conference presentations (26); Invited speaker at workshops/seminars (5)

Recent publications (last 4 years) 

1. Esquerre, C., Ktenioudaki, A., Crofton, E., Botinestean, C., Emond, JP., Mc Carthy, U. (2023). Digitizing fresh food supply chains to reduce loss and waste. 2023 IEEE Conference on AgriFood Electronics (CAFE 2023), Torino, Italy, pp. 94-98, doi: 10.1109/CAFE58535.2023.10291801. 
2. Ktenioudaki A., Carlos A. Esquerre, O’Donnell C.P., Nunes MCN. (2022). A decision support tool for shelf-life determination of strawberries using hyperspectral imaging technology. Biosystems Engineering, 221, 105-117.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2022.06.013
3. Ktenioudaki, A., O'Donnell, C. P., Emond, J. P., & do Nascimento Nunes, M. C. (2021). Blueberry supply chain: Critical steps impacting fruit quality and application of a boosted regression tree model to predict weight loss. Postharvest Biology and Technology, 179, 111590. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postharvbio.2021.111590   
4. Mc Carthy U., Ktenioudaki A., Nunes MCN., Emond JP. (2019). Cold chain monitoring technologies in Reference Module in Food Science, Elsevier.Ktenioudaki, A., O’Donnell, C. P., & do Nascimento Nunes, M. C. (2019). Modelling the biochemical and sensory changes of strawberries during storage under diverse relative humidity conditions. Postharvest Biology and Technology, 154, 148-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postharvbio.2019.04.023
5. Mc Carthy, U., Ktenioudaki, A., Cecilia do Nascimento Nunes, M., & Emond, J.-P. (2019). Cold Chain Monitoring Technologies. In Reference Module in Food Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-100596-5.22625-5
6. Mc Carthy, U., Uysal, I., Badia-Melis, R., Mercier, S., O'Donnell, C., & Ktenioudaki, A. (2018). Global food security – Issues, challenges and technological solutions. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 77, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2018.05.002