Dr. Paschalina Chatzopoulou has a BSc in Pharmacy (University of Patras), holds a PhD from the School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki—AUTh—(1992), in the field of technology and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants and analysis of bioactive compounds. She has also been involved in studies aiming at the development of ‘green technologies’ (super critical fluid extraction) in the extraction of natural products. During her PhD studies, she was granted the scholarship of a postgraduate student from AUTh and was involved as a graduate teaching assistant in the Lab of Pharmaceutical Technology. She has been a visiting fellow at the Centre of Bio-Pharmaceutical Science, Gorlaeus Laboratoria, University of Leiden, the Department of Applied Technological Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Delft, The Netherlands (1989), and a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Pharmacy, AUTh (1992-1994). She worked as a clinical trial manager in the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk S.A, Athens (1994-1997). She has been appointed as a junior researcher by the National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF), the Agricultural Research Centre of North Greece, Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (1997). Currently, she is a senior researcher at the Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER (formerly NAGREF), Institute of Breeding and Plant Genetic Resources, research unit Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.
