Vasileios Kontogiorgos
Associate Professor
Food Chemistry
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Dr. Kontogiorgos received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Food Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). A full scholarship was then awarded from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) for PhD studies in Food Science at the University of Guelph (Canada), where he investigated the physical chemistry of foods at sub-zero temperatures. After his PhD, he worked as an NSERC research fellow at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Canada), studying the phase behaviour of mixed protein-polysaccharide food systems.
Subsequently, he worked as an academic at the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Huddersfield (UK) and the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland (Australia) before joining the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC.
Dr. Kontogiorgos's research focuses on fundamental and applied aspects of the chemistry and physical chemistry of foods with an emphasis on polysaccharides and colloidal systems.