Tullia Gallina Toschi, Full Professor, PhD Food Science
and Technology,
in 1990 got a
full-honours degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. In 1992 she worked
in Scotland (Hannah Research Institute) under the direction of Dr.
W.W. Christie, where she developed a competence in the field of
stereospecific analysis of triglycerides and chromatographic and
FT-IR analysis of trans (E) fatty acids. In 1999 she got a
full-merit confirmation as Researcher of the Alma Mater Studiorum -
University of Bologna. She has been organizing many courses of
olive oil sensory analysis (2004-2013). She is a founding member
and coordinator (panel-leader enabled) of the OLIVE OIL SENSORY
PANEL, recognized by Italian Ministry of Agricolture, of the
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL). She has been coordinator of the Horizon 2020 projects PLOTINA (www.plotina.eu) and OLEUM (www.oleumproject.eu) of many national contracts, PhD tutor for the high
training PhD E-PLUS Palestine, program of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and took part, as coordinator
of her research group, in European projects (ECROPOLIS - Organic
Sensory Information System, 7th FP Grant agreement n. 218477-2 ).
She's teacher of Food Analysis and Food Technology (LM Chemistry, Food Technology L), president of two integrated
courses, tutor of more than fifty Degree or Doctorate thesis,
referee of several international journals and evaluator for the
Italian ANVUR (VQR 2004-10) and for the DG-AGRI (Cost Actions). She
is co-author of more than 160 publications, most of which
internationally indexed (h-index: 34/Scopus), she is coordinator of
the research group of Chemistry, Instrumental and Sensory Analysis of Food (http://www.distal.unibo.it/it/ricerca/ambiti-di-ricerca/scienze-e-tecnologie-degli-alimenti)
and she directed the Food Waste Innovation Centre. She has been co-editor of the
Italian Journal of Food Science, member of the Management Board
of the Italian Sensory science Society (2014-2021) and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis (Elsevier, from 2015). On December
the 6th she has been nominated President of the Guarantee Committee
for Equal Opportunities, Employee Wellbeing and Non-Discrimination
at Work - CUG of the Alma-Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
(four-year period 2013-2017) and subsequently (2017-2021) Delegate of the Rector for the Welfare at Work.
