Derks Cropotova Janna

About

Janna Cropotova obtained a PhD in 2016 in food technology and has accumulated 10 years of R&D experience in food science, innovation, and technology. Her scientific interests include: preserving nutritional quality and health benefits in food products (especially seafood) during processing and storage, developing novel methods for rapid and non-invasive assessment of food spoilage, extracting valuable ingredients from fish streams, and shelf-life prediction. Since 2017, she has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Since August 2019, she started working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences in Ålesund (NTNU). Project Expertise Principal Investigator and WP1 leader for NRC project no. 327695 of the BIONÆR-Bionærings program and WP leader for the CLIMAQUA ERA-NET project (2021-2024) “Establishing an innovative and transnational approach to feed production for reducing the climate impact of the aquaculture sector and food supply”. FOSC-120. Project Coordinator BlueBio ERA-NET "IMPRESSIVE - Improving processing to enhance valorisation and exploration of secondary seafood products" (2022-2026), project number 341732. Principal Investigator of the EEA project INTEREST (2023-2024): Innovative technologies for the recovery of valuable compounds from agri-food and seafood secondary streams for food applications. Project no: SEE-RESEARCH-170-RC. PhD supervisor on the topic of developing innovative technological solutions for advanced extraction of lipid and protein compounds from seafood secondary streams (2020-2024) PhD Student – Elisabeth Kotsoni.