Natural, Biodegradable and Edible Polymers in Food Packaging: PLA, PHBs, PCL, Silk, Starch, Chitosan
Biocomposites of Natural Fibers and Biopolymers in Food Packaging
Paper and Cardboard Reinforcement of Biopolymers for Food Packaging Materials
Natural Principles in Active Food Packaging for Enhanced Protection: Antioxidant, Antibacterial Agents
Natural Molecules in Intelligent Packaging as Indicators for Food Spoilage and Presence of Pollutants
Recent Technological Developments of Biocomposite Materials for Food Packaging Applications
Athanassia Athanassiou is Tenured Senior Researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa. Italy. After her PhD, obtained from the University of Salford, UK, she got a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, where she was associated researcher. From 2006 to 2010 she was a Senior Researcher at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of the CNR-Istituto di Nanoscienze in Lecce, Italy, and founded the group of Smart Materials at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa in 2012. She has a broad range of experimental experience in fields such as development, processing & characterization of composite nanomaterials, smart materials responsive to external stimuli, laser-matter interactions, steady state/transient spectroscopy, surface science, and nanofabrication. She has published about 250 articles in refereed journals, she is the author or co-author several book chapters, she is the inventor of 20 patents, 12 of them already filed, and she has several oral and invited contributions to international conferences.