Konstantinos Papadimitriou

Assistant Professor of Food Quality Control at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens

Konstantinos Papadimitriou is an Assistant Professor of Food Quality Control at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens. He has a B.Sc./M.Sc. degree in Food Science and Technology from the Agricultural University of Athens (1998) and a M.Sc. degree in Genetic Manipulation and Molecular Biology from the University of Sussex (2000). He has a Ph.D. in Food Microbiology from the Agricultural University of Athens (2006). He has participated as a researcher in various research projects and has extensive postdoctoral experience, over ten years, in the technological properties, physiology, genetics and genomics of lactic acid bacteria, as well as in the study of the biodiversity of fermented foods, including metagenomic approaches. Mr. Papadimitriou has published two books (Elsevier and Springer), he has published more than 60 research articles in international scientific journals and he has more than 100 presentations at national and international conferences. He is currently an academic editor in four international scientific journals and a member of the editorial board of seven journals. Mr. Papadimitriou has been an ad-hoc reviewer in more than 60 international scientific journals.