Gerassimos D. ARAPIS                               

Praxitelous str. 36

167 77 - Elliniko (Athens) - Greece

Phone: (+ 30) 210 529 44 65 (office), (+ 30) 210 992 23 07 (home).   Fax: (+30) 210 529 44 62 (office).

E-mail: mani@aua.gr  

 

56 years old, married, two children

Nationalities: Greek and French

 

 

University Professor - Ph.D. in Ecotoxicology

 

ACTUAL FUNCTIONS ..

• Professor of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Management at the Agricultural University of Athens
• Director of the Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Department of Plant and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Crop Production, Agricultural University of Athens
• Member of the Advisory Group “Agriculture and Environment” of the European Commission
• Member of the Management Committee of Parnassus Natural Reserve (Central Greece)
• Member of the Greek National Consul of Waters Management
• Member of the Management Committee of the Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage (NGO) and Chairman of the Department of Natural Environmental Protection
• Member of the Management Committee of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) (Federation of European NGOs)
• Member of the Management Committee of the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE) (Federation of Mediterranean NGOs)

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ..

 

From 1991 up to now:

Professor at the Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Sciences - Agricultural University of Athens. Actual Director of the Laboratory:

 

 1988 - 1991:

Scientific collaborator in the Institute of Radiological and Environmental Protection, Research Center for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT) of Madrid, Spain:

 

1985 - 1987:

Research fellow in the "Service d'Etudes et Recherches sur l'Environnement - Institut de Protection et de Sureté Nucléaires" of the Nuclear Centre (C.E.N.) of Fontenay-aux-Roses, France:

 

1982 - 1985:

Post-graduate fellow of the European Commission in the Department of Biology of the Nuclear Center (CEN/SCK) of Mol, Belgium:

 

1978 - 1982:

Research assistant in the University of Paris VII - "Laboratoire de Pharmacochimie Moléculaire et Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire Végétale", Paris, France:

• Participation in the Advisory Group “Agriculture and Environment” of the European Commission (starting from the year 2001 up to this present time), with emphasis in the management of natural resources.

• Participation (1991-1996) to the International Research Programme CHECIR (CHErnobyl Centre for International Research) - ECP-4 “Behavior and fate of radio-pollutants, and consequences of nuclear accidents”:
  • Cost benefit analysis of decontamination actions (including decontamination of forests).
  • Self restoration of contaminated ecosystems (including forests).

• Participation (1989-1995) to the European Research Programme RESSAC (REhabilitation of Soils and Surfaces after a nuclear ACcident):
  • Application of rehabilitation techniques in radiocontaminated ecosystems (including forests).
  • Efficiency of the non lethal defoliation and ecotoxicological impact of the countermeasures used for the recovery of agricultural areas.

• Participation (1991-1993) to the French Research Programme “Transfert de la radioactivité à l’home dans la chaîne alimentaire: caractéristiques de l’Europe du sud” (CEA – Cadarache).

• Coordination (1988-1991) of the Post-Chernobyl Action Nr 6 of the European Commission: Improvement of practical countermeasures against nuclear contamination in the agricultural environment (Radiation Protection Programme).

• Participation (1985-1987) to the European Research Programme “Behavior of radionuclides in terrestrial environments: Radionuclides deposition on vegetation and soils” (CEA – Fontenay aux Roses, France).

• At the ‘Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle’ (MNHN) of Paris – France:
  • Selected courses of Ecotoxicology, Postgraduate Programme in Toxins and Ecosystems.

• At the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICH), International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM):
  • Mediterranean Agricultural Environments, Postgraduate Programme in Environmental Management.

• At the Cyprus International Institute for the Environment and Public Health (CII), in association with Harvard School of Public Health (USA):
  • Ecotoxicology, Postgraduate Programme in Environmental Health.

 

• NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment and Multiple Stressors”, 13-16 October 2004, Poros - Greece

• COST Action 849 “Parasitic Plant Management in sustainable Agriculture”, 30 October -2 November 2003, Athens – Greece.

• VIth International Symposium on Acetabularia, 1-3 October 1984, University of Pisa, Italy.

• Acetabularia Newsletter Nr 4. Eds. S. Bonotto, A. Luttke, G. Arapis, International Research Group on Acetabularia (IRGA), CEN-SCK of Mol, Belgium, August 1984, 38p.