Demetrios Kouretas is Professor of Physiology and Toxicology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Greece, as well as scientific advisor at Eatwalk, a start-up specialized in functional food development. He has a BSc in Pharmacy the from University of Patras (Greece), 1985; a PhD in Biochemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), 1989; and a post doc from Harvard Medical School, 1990-1992. He has been a staff member at the University of Thessaly since 1996 and since 2007, he has been Professor of ‘Animal Physiology—Toxicology’ at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the University of Thessaly (Greece). He was Vice Rector of the University of Thessaly (2013–2014) and is a member of the Committee of Experts at the Commission on Chemical Threats. He is Assistant Editor of Food and Chemical Toxicology and Academic Editor of Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. In 2017, he was elected member of the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks, SCHEER. In the same
year (2017), he was elected President of the Hellenic Society of Toxicology and Director of the National Master Program in Toxicology. He has founded the spin-off company FoodOxys, aimed at developing biofunctional nutrition.
