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Personal Data
Married, two children (Fotis, born 1991, Maria-Nefeli born1998)
Education
PhD in Industrial Biotechnology, 1990, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
Employments (Full time)
- Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2012-present
- Visiting Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Chalmers University, Industrial Biotechnology Laboratory (April-July 2010, 4 months)
- Associate Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2007-2011
- Visiting Professor, Center for Process Biotechnology, BioCentrum-DTU, Denmark. 2003 (12 months)
- Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2001-2007
- Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1996-2001
- Research Scientist, University of Ghent, Department of Biochemistry, Physiology and Microbiology, Belgium, 1995 (12 months)
- Research Scientist, Institute of Food Research, Protein Engineering Department, Reading, UK, 1993 (12 months)
- Post-doctoral fellow, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1990-1992
Awards
Awarded as a fellow:
- 1978-1979. Greek National Scholarship Foundation for excellent academic progress
- 1982-1986. Fellowship of N.C.S.R. "Demokritos”
- 1993. EU, Marie Curie fellowship (category 30)
- 1995. EU, Marie Curie fellowship (category 30)
- 1996. EU, Marie Curie fellowship (category R)
- 2003. EU, Marie Curie fellowship (category 40)
Current Undergraduate Teaching
- Cellular Biology basic course for Chemical Engineers, 5th semester
- Biotechnology and Environment basic course for Chemical Engineers, 8th semester
- Biotechnology and Environment, Laboratory course for Chemical Engineers, 8th semester
- Industrial Biotechnology, Laboratory courses for Chemical Engineers, 9th semester
Current Postgraduate Teaching
Agricultural University of Athens, course in Enzyme Biotechnology (MSc – level)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, course in Microbial Biotechnology (MSc – level)
Diploma thesis supervision of students
- More than 60 diploma thesis projects for NTUA-Chemical Engineer students
PhD Student supervision
- Evangelos Topakas “Production, purification and biotechnological evaluation of microbial feruloyl esterases” 2000-2004
- Gianni Panagiotou “Optimization of bioethanol production from Fusarium oxysporum using Metabolic Engineering tools” 2000-2004
- Maria Vardakou “Mechanism of enzymic degradation of wheat arabinoxylan” 2002-2005
- Christina Vafiadi “Chemoenzymic synthesis in organic solvents using feruloyl esterases as biocatalysts” 2004-2008
- Charilaos Xiros “Novel bioprocesses for hemicellulose up-grading 2004-2010
- Elisavet Kourtoglou “Production of bioethanol from hemicellulosic substrates” 2005-2010
- Leria Papaspyridi "Microbial Production of Secondary Metabolites and their Biotechnological application in discovery of natural products" 2006-2011
- Maria Dimarogona "Structural and molecular studies of biocatalysts implicated in hemicellulose degradation" 2007-2012
- Maria Moukouli "Molecular and biochemical characterization of feruloyl esterases"
- Constantinos Tiraidis “Design and experimental evaluation of substances with biotechnological and pharmaceutical interest 2004-
- Thomas Pasxos “Bioethanol production from hydrothermally pretreated wheat straw under high dry matter conditions” 2010-
- Anthi Karnaouri “Molecular and biochemical characterization of thermophilic cellulases from Sporotrichum thermophile” 2010-
- Leonidas Matsakas “Bioethanol production from hydrothermally pretreated sweet sorghum under high dry matter conditions” 2010-
- Marianna Charavgi “Molecular, biochemical and structural studies of mesophilic and thermophilic glucuronoyl esterases 2009-
Other activities
- Greek representative in the EU-funded COST Actions : D29(Sustainable/Green Chemistry and Chemical Technology), D928 (Control and exploitation of enzymes for added-value food products) and FP0602 (Biotechnology of lignocellulose biorefineries)
- Associate Editor of World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Referee in journals: Biotechnologica Acta, Biotechnology Bioengineering, Biotechnology Progress, Journal of Chromatography, Industrial Microbiology, Food Microbiology, Engineering of Life Sciences, FEMS Microbial Reviews, Biochim. Biophys. Actα, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Enzyme Microbial Technology, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Bioresource Technology, Carbohydrate Chemistry, Applied Microbiology, Bioresource Technology, Process Biochemistry, Electronic Journal of Biotechnology).
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