Introduction 

He obtained his BSc degree in food engineering in 2014 at the Faculty of Food Science of the Corvinus University of Budapest, and in 2017 he received his MSc degree in chemical engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry and Bioengineering of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 2016, in parallel with his master’s studies, he started working at the Risk Management Directorate of the National Food Chain Safety Office as a Strategic analyst. He started his PhD studies at the University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest in 2018, and in 2022 he defended his thesis titled “The role of functional food in healthy aging: a consumer research perspective” with a summa cum laude classification, after which he worked as a research fellow at the UVMB from the fall of 2022. Since 2024, he has served as Deputy Head of the Department of Applied Food Science at the Institute of Food Chain Science. Since September 2025, he has been a János Bolyai Research Scholarship holder of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Main research areas:

• Food safety
• Food waste reduction
• Functional food products
• Risk communication
• Consumer research

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Previous dissertation / number of TDK students:  14

PhD students

Publication list (Top10):

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Tompa, O., Kiss, A*., Soós, S., Lakner, Z., Raner, A., Kasza, G., & Szakos, D. (2025). Fifteen years of NOVA food-processing classification:“friend or foe” among sustainable diet indicators? A scoping review. Nutrition Reviews, 83(4), 771-791.

Lámfalusy, T., Ózsvári, L., Szakos, D*., & Kasza, G. (2025). Freshwater compared to marine fish-A quantitative study on consumer perspectives. Aquaculture, 603, 742382.

Nugraha, W. S., Szakos, D*., Süth, M., & Kasza, G. (2024). Greenwashing in the food industry: a systematic review exploring the current situation and possible countermeasures. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 15, 100227.

Kasza, G., Oláh, J*., Popp, J., Lakner, Z., Fekete, L., Pósa, E., Nugraha, W. S., & Szakos, D. (2024). Food miles on the shelves: the share of local food products in the Hungarian retail sector. Agricultural and Food Economics, 12(1), 3.

Kasza, G., Izsó, T*., Langsrud, S., Vrbos, D., Veflen, N., Ueland, Ø., Scholderer, J., Münter, L., Csenki, E., Szakos, D., Ramsay, J., & Süth, M. (2024). Institutional food safety risk communication–A self-evaluation tool and its interpretation. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 150, 104594.

Kasza, G., Izsó, T*., Szakos, D., Nugraha, W. S., Tamimi, M. H., & Süth, M. (2023). Insects as food-Changes in consumers’ acceptance of entomophagy in Hungary between 2016 and 2021. Appetite, 188, 106770.

Szakos, D*., Ózsvári, L., & Kasza, G. (2022). Health-related nutritional preferences of older adults: A segmentation study for functional food development. Journal of Functional Foods, 92, 105065.

Kasza, G*., Csenki, E., Szakos, D., & Izsó, T. (2022). The evolution of food safety risk communication: Models and trends in the past and the future. Food Control, 138, 109025.

Szakos, D., Szabó-Bódi, B., & Kasza, G*. (2021). Consumer awareness campaign to reduce household food waste based on structural equation behavior modeling in Hungary. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28(19), 24580-24589.

Szabó-Bódi, B*., Kasza, G., & Szakos, D. (2018). Assessment of household food waste in Hungary. British Food Journal, 120(3), 625-638.