Biography

Bartosz G. Sołowiej works as Assoc. Prof. in the Department of Milk Technology and Hydrocolloids at the Faculty of Food Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland. He utilizes proteins and polysaccharides to improve functional properties of selected dairy products; deals with food products development, particularly foods for sportsmen and physically active people. He graduated from the prestigious Top 500 Innovators “Science. Management. Commercialization” program of the University of California Berkeley, USA. He was an Endeavour Research Fellow - Visiting Professor at Victoria University, Melbourne. Also, Bartosz was a scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and participated in many international trainings in frames of Socrates Intensive Program: “Food and Consumer” - Corvinus University of Budapest, “Agriculture - raw materials for industry” - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, “Safety in the Agro-Food Chain” – Ghent University. He was a member of Young Scientists Council (RMN) at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, (2013-2015) and the Program Council of Food Technology and Human Nutrition course at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin (2013-2017). Bartosz Sołowiej participated in EU research and scientific projects: “Transfer of knowledge as an opportunity for the development of agriculture, small and medium-sized enterprises” as a main contractor and “The Power of Knowledge” as a scientific expert. He was a semi-finalist of the international competition to popularize science - FameLab, with the topic “The second life of whey”, organized by the Copernicus Science Centre and the British Council in 2015. Also, he was an expert in field of food additives and processed cheese in frames of Radio Lublin’s cyclic program “Secrets of food” (2015) and utilization of whey proteins in food products for sportsmen in Radio eR (2016). In the years 2004 - 2007 he gave a series of lectures “Food fortification and diet supplementation”, “Whey proteins – 21st century proteins” and “What we know about functional food” for chemistry teachers in frames of the Seminars organized by publishing house “Nowa Era” in many cities in Poland. Since 2009, Bartosz Sołowiej is an international lecturer as a part of the Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility Program.