Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Bachelor of Science degree in Horticulture-Agronomy (March 1973), Agricultural University of Athens.
• Master of Science degree in Vegetable Crops. (March, 1984), University of California, Davis.
• Doctor of Philosophy degree in Horticulture. (August, 1987), University of Maryland, College Park.

 

Teaching Experience

• Teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Crete, University of Athens and Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania.

 

Supervising up-to-today

• 18 post-docts, 8 Ph.D. students, 16 M.Sc. students and 5 technicians.

 

Affiliation

• Member of 4 national and international scientific societies.

 

Participation in Scientific Meetings

• Participation in 74 meetings with 74 presentations and 47 as invited speaker.

 

Grant History

• 41 competitive grants from National and EU agencies.

 

Professional Recognition (recent)

• Associated Editor, Frontiers in Plant Science, Section Plant Metabolism and Chemodiversity
• Associated Editor, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Section Crop Biology and Sustainability
• Associated Editor, BMC Biotechnology
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Postharvest Biology and Technology”
• Metrics (Google Scholar - November 2020): citation index 4990, h-index 38, i10-index 63,
  http://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=ZLJoqwIAAAAJ

 

Main research interests and achievements

A. Molecular Biotechnology of Secondary Metabolism
B. Molecular Biotechnology of Plant Stress

 

Recent publications