Spiros Paramithiotis graduated from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, in 1996. In 1998 he received a scholarship for post-graduate studies from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece and in 2002 he received the PhD degree in Food Microbiology from the Agricultural University of Athens. In 2003, he joined the Agricultural University of Athens, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition as a member of the scientific personnel. In 2023 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of ‘Microbiology’ by the University of Ioannina, Department of Biological Applications and Technology.
His research interests lie mainly in the field of food fermentations and foodborne diseases, with particular emphasis on microbial taxonomy, metabolism, physiology, symbiotic patterns and the underlying molecular mechanisms. He has participated in several research projects funded by the EU, the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology as well as Food Industries. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 publications and book chapters, edited and co-edited 6 books in aspects related to Food Microbiology and has received more than 3500 citations.
Yorgos Kotseridis is the Director of the Enology Lab at the Agricultural University of Athens. He has published over 80 papers in international journals (citations >2400; h = 28, Scopus, 28 November 2023), as well having been invited to deliver a number of important talks worldwide. He is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Enology and Viticulture, OENO-one, and a member of the biggest scientific network of enology, the Oenovitis. He has participated in many conferences and chaired several sessions in international symposiums worldwide. He established the relatively new laboratory of Enology, the first of its kind in Greece, and has directed research on wine quality.
Prof. Maria Dimopoulou completed her Ph.D. at Bordeaux University and worked to identify the biosynthetic pathways and physiology of exopolysaccharide production in O. oeni. After several post-doctoral positions in Bordeaux and Athens, she is now an Associate Professor in wine microbiology and enology at the University of West Attica in Athens, Greece. Her interests include wine microbiology, and she has been involved in 28 scientific international papers, with an h index factor of 11 (Scopus, 28 November 2023).
