Rank/Position: Associate Professor, Agricultural University of Athens

Scientific Field: Food Microbiology & Emerging Food Processing Technologies

Faculty/Department/Research Institution: Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition, A.U.A.

Assoc. Prof. Nikos Chorianopoulos graduated from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens in 2002. He then completed his PhD thesis in Food Microbiology at the General Department of the Agricultural University of Athens (2003-2007). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratories of Prof. G.-I. Nychas (EMBT, AUA) and Prof. I. Sofou (Center for Meat Safety and Quality Food Safety Cluster, Animal Sciences Dept, Colorado State University, USA). He worked for about twelve years (2011-2022) as a Researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Products Technology of the Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DIMITRA (formerly ETHIAGE).

In May 2022 he was elected Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Biotechnology of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens in the field of ‘Food Microbiology & Emerging Food Processing Technologies’. He has worked in more than fifty (50) research projects in twelve (12) of them as Coordinator/Scientific Director. His research work focuses on microbiology and food safety, the use of natural antimicrobial agents and modern technologies in food preservation, probiotic foods, the fight against biofilms in the food industry, olive fermentation, the use of modern analytical methods in Food Microbiology, Blockchain technologies, IoT, etc.

He has published seventy-nine (79) scientific articles in SCI journals with Impact Factor – IF (ΣIF: 361.267, IF/publication: 4.573, h-index: 33, Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8931822000, with 3809 citations), two (2) scientific articles in non-SCI journals (Google Scholar Citation Index database), four chapters in books (4), one hundred seventy-five (175) presentations at international and national conferences, forty-five (45) presentations at national conferences and seven (7) other publications. He serves as Associate Editor in 2 SCI journals.