Louka Cox

Louka Cox is a PhD student at the division of Food and Nutrition Science, working together with industry partners Lantmännen and Arla Foods to incorporate plant and dairy proteins in hybrid foods. The objective of her PhD project is to understand how mixing various sources of plant and dairy proteins affects their performance in gel- and emulsion-based hybrid food products and their underlying mechanisms. Her focus lies on optimizing the functionality, flavor, and nutrition of hybrid foods by developing advanced fermentation technologies and identifying relationships between microbial composition, conditions, and product quality in hybrid foods. She has experience with bioreactors and high-performance liquid chromatography to study microbial metabolism in food-related organisms.