Full professor in Pharmacognosy and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He obtained his Ph.D on 1987 at Descartes University, Paris V where he spent six year as academic staff. He was visiting professor in Orleans and Innsbruck Universities as well as in Chinese Academy of Science. At present he leads a research group of more than 30 researchers, focusing on natural product-based lead discovery, for various applications as therapeutics, functional foods, cosmetics and agrochemicals. Parallel research activities have been deployed concerning new agricultural processes related to medicinal plants and the solution in environmental problems derived from agricultural wastes. He is also the founder of Pharmagnose spin-off biotechnological company (2013). He has participated in 15 EU projects, 8 as coordinator and has organized the 7th Joint meeting on natural products chemistry and biology, Athens in 2008 and the IUPAC 30th International Symposium on the chemistry of natural products, Athens in 2018. To date he has published 450 papers and 20 patents with more than 30.000 citations and h-index 75.
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