Stavroula Kanoni, PhD, PGCAP, FHEA 

Reader (Associate Professor) in Nutrigenetics and Cardiovascular Health, Queen Mary University of London 

General Secretary of the Santorini Conferences Association 

Stavroula Kanoni is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Nutrigenetics and Cardiovascular Health in the Barts & the London Medical School at Queen Mary University of London. She is also the Academic Lead of the Environment & Health Multi-Disciplinary Theme of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) and is an HEA (Higher Education Academy) Fellow. She graduated from the University of Athens, Greece, with a B.Sc. in Science of Nutrition and Dietetics, followed by an M.Sc. in Clinical Dietetics and a PhD in Nutrigenetics. She has over 10 years’ experience in the genetics of cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases and the lifestyle/diet interplay. She is interested in elucidating disease-related mechanisms in multi-ethnic cohorts and developing innovative therapeutic strategies, to alleviate or at least modulate the impact of environment on health. Her research aims are to incorporate multi-disciplinary approaches and data (genetic, epigenetic, biochemical, metabolomics, environmental and lifestyle data), as a new model for improved diagnosis and treatment of disease. Her work is reflected in > 110 peer-reviewed publications and she has an H-index of 73.