Professor
George MoschonisProfile page
Adjunct Professor
Food, Nutrition and Dietetics
BIO
Dr. George Moschonis is a Professor in the Department of Dietetics, Nutrition and Sport at La Trobe University. Until December 2019 Prof. George Moschonis was the Head of the Discipline of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, while he is currently the course coordinator of the Honours in Human Nutrition.
His main research area of interest is the identification of determinants or predictors (starting from very early life stages) of obesity and obesity related cardio-metabolic complications and the design and evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of nutrition and lifestyle optimization counselling programs, which aim to tackle the societal challenge of obesity and related co-morbidities (i.e., type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease etc.) in children and adults. In addition, his research expertise also extends to the design of new functional food products, as well as to the implementation of human clinical trials that set the basis for the assessment of the clinical effectiveness of functional foods and dietary supplements in tackling nutrition-related health conditions. Prof. George Moschonis is currently the Chief Investigator (CIA) in a new EU-NHMRC funded project (i.e., DigiCare4You) on diabetes prevention and in two industry-funded probiotic supplementation intervention studies (i.e., Probone21 and Biome Lift study), while he is also the primary supervisor of five PhD and three Honours students.
Prof. George Moschonis has authored more than 270 research articles, published in high-impact international peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is a highly-cited author, since his research outputs have more than 31,270 citations and an h-index of 52 based on Scopus.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- ProfessorLa Trobe University, Department of Dietetics, Human Nutrition and Sport, Melbourne, Australia1 Jan 2022 - present
- Associate ProfessorLa Trobe University, Department of Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Sport,, Melbourne, Australia16 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2021
- Senior LecturerLa Trobe University, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia3 Oct 2017 - 15 Jan 2018
- LecturerEuropean University of Cyprus, Health Sciences, Nicosia, Cyprus1 Feb 2015 - 31 Aug 2017
- Senior ResearcherHarokopio University, Nutrition and Dietetics, Athens, Greece1 Sep 2007 - 31 Aug 2017
LANGUAGES
- English
- Greek, Modern (1453-)