Rank/Position: Professor, University of Thessaly

Scientific Field: Fish Hygiene and Conservation

Faculty/Department/Research Institution: Department of Agriculture, Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, University of Thessaly

Ioannis S. Boziaris is a Professor at the University of Thessaly, Director of the Laboratory of Marketing and Technology of Fishery Products and Foods, Director of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program of the University of Thessaly ‘Technology, Quality and Safety of Foods of Animal Origin’ as well as a member and national representative of the coordinating council of WEFTA (West European Fish Technologists Association).

In 2006, he took up the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Aquaculture, Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment of the University of Thessaloniki and has been at the rank of Professor since 2019. In 2018, he was a visiting researcher for 6 months at the Seafood Research and Education Center of Oregon State University, USA, while he has also collaborated on research with other universities abroad such as the University of Turin (Italy), NTNU (Trondheim- Norway), University of Reading (UK), etc. as well as with various universities and research institutions in Asia such as the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand).

His main research interests focus on the study of microbiological safety and quality-spoilage of fish using molecular and other omics techniques, as well as on the processing-preservation of fish.

He is actively involved in research programs, both Greek and international, as a partner and coordinator, and has several projects with the Greek Fisheries Industry. He has over 150 papers in international scientific journals and conferences, more than 2800 citations with h-index 30 in Scopus, (4190 citations with h-index 34 in Google Scholar) and has authored 10 chapters in collected volumes, is an editor in 2 foreign language collected volumes, an editor in 2 books translated from English to Greek, a member of the editorial board in 3 international scientific journals (Food Microbiology-Elsevier, Foods-MDPI and Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology-Taylor & Francis), and a reviewer in over 35. He was ranked in the “World’s Top 2% Scientists List” for 2020, 2022 and 2023 as well as for his entire career in 2023 (field: Food Science-Microbiology) based on the research of Professor John Ioannidis, Stanford University, USA. Finally, he is an Evaluator of the ESYD (National Accreditation System) for Food Safety Management System Certification Bodies as well as a trainer of the EFET (Unified Food Control Body).