Activities

Vice-President of the Nutrition Commission of the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP)

Editorial Board Member in the Journal of Dairy Research, SciTz Nutrition and Food Science, Gavin Journal of Food and Nutritional Science.

Awarded as one of the best reviewer of Small Ruminant Research Journal for the years 2015 and 2016.

Secretariat of the Nutrition Commission of European Association for Animal Production (EAAP) (2010-2016).

Chairperson in the session «Animal Nutrition» of the Nutrition Commission at the 61th EAAP Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Heraklion, Greece, 23-27 August, 2010.

Chairperson in the session «Feeding (and management) to improve gut barrier function and immunity in livestock» of the Nutrition Commission at the 65th EAAP Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-29 August, 2014.

Chairperson in the session «Customized nutrition taking into account the health status of farms and individual animals» of the Nutrition Commission at the 66th EAAP Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Warsaw, Poland, 2015.

Reviewer of research papers in peer review Journals like: Journal of Dairy Research (14), Small Ruminant Research (15), Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology (2), Animal (3), Livestock Science (5), Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology (1), Lipids (1), Nutrients (2), Annals of Animal Science (2), British Journal of Nutrition (1), International Journal of Livestock Production (1), International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2), Journal of Applied Animal Research (1), BMC Genetics (1), Animal Science Review (2) European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology (1), Animal Feed Science and Technology (1), Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry (1).

Evaluator of research program «Improvement in competitiveness of sheep milk products and stabilization of 12 sheep farming with a view to landscape formation» for the Slovak Research and Development Agency.

Alternative Member of the Certification Committee for organic products of the ΑΕ-QWays.

Scholarship from the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP) to present paper at the EAAP conference in Tallinn of Estonia in August of 2017.

Scholarship from the National Scholarship Foundation of Greece in 2010 for Post Doctoral Research at the Department of Nutritional Physiology and Feeding of the Agricultural University of Athens.

Scholarship from the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP) as young scientist to present paper at the EAAP conference in Barcelona of Spain in August of 2009.

Scholarship from the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP) as young scientist to participate and present paper at the EAAP conference in Antalya of Turkey in September of 2006.

Scholarship from the National Scholarship Foundation of Greece during the post graduate studies (2005-2008, MSc. and Ph.D.).

A. Supervision of students and examination of dissertations and theses

  •  Undergraduate Level: 55 students in 19 as supervisor and in 36 as a member of the examination committee
  •   Master’s Level: 8 students in 3 as supervisor and in 5 as a member of the examination committee
  •   PhD Level: 9 students in 3 as supervisor, in 3 as a member of the advisory-examination committee and in 3 as a member of the examination committee
  • External evaluator of the PhD thesis of Elena Mariani entitled “Animal Nutrition: A tool to mitigate oxidative stress and inflammation” supervised by Prof. Giovanni Savoini, University of Milan, Italy.

B. Internship (13 students): 2 out of 10 students had their traineeship done via “Atlas” a centralized online service which interconnects companies and provides internship positions with all academic institutions in Greece. Their practice was video recorded and is available online at http://traineeship.aua.gr/

Award from the Dairy Industry FrieslandCampina Hellas in the competition «Ideachallenge 2019» entitled «Pilot application of a Research Project in FrieslandCampina Hellas».

Young Scientist Award 2017 from European Association for Animal Production (EAAP)