Tonia Vassilakou is Professor of Public Health Nutrition in the Department of Public Health Policy, University of West Attica. She is a member of the Dean’s Office of the School of Public Health and a member of the National Nutrition Policy Committee. She holds a degree in Food Science and Technology from the Agricultural University of Athens and a PhD acquired at the Medical School of Athens. She has been working at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics of Harokopio University (2000-2004) and at the National School of Public Health from 1988 until 2019, when the School was merged with the University of West Attica as the Department of Public Health Policy. She is the Director of the MSc Program in Public Health held by the Department of Public Health Policy She has been teaching at the MSc Program and as an invited lecturer in undergraduate and postgraduate courses organized by other universities. She has been the supervisor of more than 80 master's dissertations and she is a member of the advisory committee for two doctoral theses. She has been coordinating and participating in several research projects. She has written one book, has contributed to seven chapters of books and textbooks and has published more than 45 high impact original research scientific papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals. She is the Guest Editor for the Special Issue on “Childhood Malnutrition” of the peer-reviewed Open Access Journal “Children” by MDPI.