BSc: Crop Production – Protection, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

MSc: Technology of Crop Protection, University of Reading, UK

PhD: microbial metabolism of pesticides, University of Reading, UK

Post-Doc: Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

Research Interests: Effects of pollutants on the ecology and function of soil microbial communities, microbial metabolism of pesticides in soil, isolation and characterization of pesticide-degrading microorganisms and study of their genetics and ecology, application of bioreremediation for recovering polluted ecosystems, environmental fate and behaviour of pesticides.