Effie TSAKALIDOU

Professor, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

Athens, Greece

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Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

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Athens, Greece

The Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) offers high-level undergraduate and postgraduate Education and Research in Agricultural Science, and its vision is to achieve Educational and Research Excellence so as to occupy a dynamic position in the international academic environment. True to its traditional role of responding to the productive and developmental needs of the Greek economy and society, the AUA intervenes and develops in line with the development and orientation of modern education and science. Moreover, it is in continuous contact with society so as to make proposals and provide solutions to problems that arise within the agri-nutrition sector. The AUA campus is 25 hectares in area bordering on both sides the historic Iera Odos (the Sacred Way of antiquity), close to the centre of Athens, at the heart of the ancient Olive Grove and the edge of the Ancient Site of Kerameikos. The University’s 28 building complexes comprise 42 fully-organized and equipped laboratories for teaching and research, and 55 modern auditoriums and lecture rooms. Education and training in the AUA is also carried out in the agricultural facilities of the vineyard and the arboretum, and is also facilitated by a valuable collection of plant material, the agricultural museum, the experiment installations for plants, livestock and aquatic organisms, the exemplary dairy installations and winery, the greenhouses, the farm machinery, the apiculture and beekeeping unit, the compost unit, and the Library & Information Centre. The restaurant, café, library, indoor gym and sports & recreation fields create an atmosphere of creative interaction for all the members of the academic community on the campus. The AUA farms are situated in the city of Aliartos in Boeotia (an area of 100ha), Oropos (2.7 ha) and Yalou, municipality of Loutsa – Artemida (35 ha). All the AUA farms are used for instruction and research, which are vital for the development of agricultural science and primary agricultural production. In addition, sections of the above farms are cultivated for production.

About me

Effie Tsakalidou graduated in Chemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980. In 1981, she moved to Germany for post-graduate studies with a scholarship from the “A. S. Onassis” Foundation. In 1986, she received her PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Cologne, Germany. In 1987, she joined the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, initially as a post-doc researcher in the Laboratory of Dairy Research. Currently, she is Professor of Food Biochemistry in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. She is also the Director of the ACA-DC collection (aca.dc.gr) of microorganisms of the Laboratory of Dairy Research, AUA. Her research interests lie in the field of lactic acid bacteria, with emphasis on taxonomy, physiology, metabolism, bacteriocins, probiotics, genetics, genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and technological performance and applications. She has co-authored over 400 publications in the above fields, including 134 research and 12 review papers in peer-reviewed journals, along with 21 book chapters, and presented 14 non-conference invited papers, 160 papers in international conferences and 87 papers in national conferences. She has been Principal Investigator and Co-PI in a number of National and European research projects, among them 20 EU funded projects, in 41 National projects and 10 projects funded by private third parties. She is member of the Editorial Board in international scientific journals, among them the International Dairy Journal, as well as member of scientific societies. Effie Tsakalidou was from 2010 to 2022 the Head of the Laboratory of Dairy Research at the Agricultural University of Athens. From 2012 to 2017, she served as the Deputy President of the Council of the Agricultural University of Athens.

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