Vasiliki Bountziouka, MSc, PhD, AFHEA
Assistant Professor in Biostatistics
Dept. of Food Science and Nutrition
University of the Aegean
Dr Vasiliki Bountziouka is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean, and a member of the Laboratory of Computational Simulations, Genomics and Data Analysis (PYGAD). She holds honorary appointments with the Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department at the GOS Institute of Child Health, UCL (Honorary Lecturer), and with the Department of Cardiovascular Science at the University of Leicester (Honorary Fellow). She earned her BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics (2004), an MSc in Biostatistics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2008), and a PhD from Harokopio University (2012), focusing on the reproducibility of food frequency questionnaires and statistical methods for deriving dietary patterns. Between 2012 and 2022, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University College London and the University of Leicester, contributing to interdisciplinary programmes that translated research findings into clinical practice. She has published more than 120 original research papers, serves as a reviewer for international journals, and has received awards recognising her scientific contributions. In her academic role, she supervises and co-supervises doctoral and postgraduate theses. Her research centres on the design and analysis of epidemiological and clinical studies, measurement error in dietary intake assessment, identification of dietary patterns and their links with non-communicable diseases, and the role of lifestyle behaviours across the life course. She has developed paediatric reference equations and standardised scores for lung function in children aged 6–12 years, and reference equations/standardised metrics for assessing neurodevelopment at age 2. She has also contributed to public health practice aimed at early disease prevention, including initiatives related to myopia prevention.