Emmanuel Hatzakis MSc, PhD

Emmanuel Hatzakis received his BSc in chemistry in 2000, MSc in organic chemistry in 2004, and Ph.D. in food analysis in 2007, at the University of Crete in Greece. From 2008 to 2010 he worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Arizona at the College of Pharmacy and from 2010 to 2012 he was a Research Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Then he became the NMR Director at Pennsylvania State University and in August 2016 he joined the department of Food Science and Technology at The Ohio State University as Assistant Professor. As an NMR spectroscopist and chemist, he has a broad background in multinuclear and multidimensional NMR spectroscopy, as well as in analytical chemistry and metabolomics. He specifically focuses on compound identification and analysis of foods and other complex matrices, such as biofluids and plant extracts. He has developed novel and powerful NMR methodologies for the evaluation and quality assessment of food products and for the structure elucidation of plant-based bioactive compounds. Emmanuel is also considered a very recognized NMR educator.