Dr. Vissarion Efthymiou

Curriculum Vitae

2023/11 - Present | Senior Scientist at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH),  Department of Health, Sciences, and Technology (D-HEST), ETH Zürich, Switzerland

2019/11 - 2023/10 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Joslin Diabetes Center, Department of Integrative Physiology and Metabolism, Research Division, Boston, USA

2013/11 - 2019/10 | PhD student at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH), Department of Health, Sciences, and Technology (D-HEST), ETH Zürich (PhD program Molecular and Translational Biomedicine), Switzerland

2012/10 - 2013/09 | Research Assistant at Harokopio University, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Athens, Greece), Polyphenol-rich fruits and atherosclerosis.

2011/09 - 2012/09 | M.Sc. in Clinical and Public Health Nutrition at University College London (UCL), Adipokines and Metabolism Research Group, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology (London, United Kingdom). Human Adipose Tissue Catecholamine Biosynthetic Pathways in Metabolically Healthy and Pathologically Obese Patients undergoing Bariatric Surgery.

2007/10 - 2011/07 | B.Sc. in Science of Nutrition and Dietetics at Harokopio University, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Athens, Greece). Hierarchical Decomposition of the components of the Mediterranean Diet in the evaluation of prediction of Acute Coronary Syndrome events.