Susana Socolovsky
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Susana Socolovsky, Ph.D., CFS is a Doctor in Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires. Susana devoted 20 years to scientific research and teaching organic chemistry and food science at the University of Buenos Aires. She was awarded the Argentine National Biennial Prize on Organic Chemistry in 1985. Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology and a Certified Food Scientist by the Certification Institute of the Institute of Food Technologists.
She has authored multiple scientific papers, reviews, book chapters and magazine articles, has lectured in more than 260 Conferences in 20 countries, and dictated courses in 14 countries.
For the last 30 years Dr. Socolovsky has worked as an International Technical Consultant in Regulatory and Scientific Affairs and Food Innovation.
She is currently the President of the Argentine Association of Food Technologists and was the President of the 2019 Latinamerican and the Caribbean Congress of Food Science and Technology.
She is a member of the Argentine Nutrition Society (SAN) and has served as a member of the International Scientific Committee of the 21st International Congress of Nutrition 2017. She is a member of the Editorial Council of the Journal Actualización en Nutrición, published by SAN and serves as reviewer of the two additional scientific magazines.
Since 1992, she acts as a non-governmental representative at Mercosur regulatory meetings, participates at the Codex local meetings and is member of the expert panel of the Argentine National Program for Healthy Eating and Prevention of Obesity since 2016.
Professional Member of IFT, an IFT Food Science Communicator. She has served on the IFT Jury for the Food Innovation Awards for Latinamerican FS&T associations.