NESLI SÖZER

Nesli Sözer (DSc. Technology) is a research professor in smart and sustainable food production at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and a Docent from Helsinki University in Food Technology. She has more than 20 years expertise on food material science and food ingredient/product design. Nesli is passionate in immersing food science and technology into novel concepts. Currently, she is leading projects focusing on dietary fibre and protein extraction from plant-based materials and side-streams including also their food design. Nesli is the chair of Healthgrain Forum (https://healthgrain.org/) an association whose vision is to promote science-based concepts fully unlocking the health promoting potential in the entire grain food production chain to obtain healthy, convenient and appealing foods.