Biography

Vasileios Fotopoulos is Associate Professor in Structural and Functional Plant Biology and head of the CUT Plant Stress Physiology Group established in 2008. His main scientific research focuses on the study of nitro-oxidative signalling cascades involved in the plant’s response to stress factors, while emphasis is being given in the development of chemical and biological priming technologies towards the amelioration of abiotic stress factors and promotion of plant growth. Relevant research has resulted in the publication of a patent and the provisional filing of a second one. In addition, he is involved in research studying plant secondary metabolism and antioxidant responses in fruit crops during ripening. To date, Dr. Fotopoulos is the author of 69 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals (h-index=26; Source: Scopus), as well as 7 book chapters. He currently serves as Editorial Board member in Journal of Experimental Botany, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, BMC Plant Biology, Gene, Frontiers in Plant Science and five other journals. He has also been assigned to evaluate competitive research proposals from different countries (France, Belgium, Poland, Chile, Latvia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Israel, Qatar, Austria, Cyprus, Denmark), EU proposals (EUROSTARS), while he participated as Review Panel Member for COST Actions (EU) in the field of ‘Natural Sciences’ and FWO (BE) in Section ‘BIO1’. Finally, he has acted as examiner of MSc theses/PhD dissertations from Italy, South Africa and The Netherlands.

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Research Interest

His main scientific research focuses on the study of nitro-oxidative signalling cascades involved in the plant’s response to stress factors, while the emphasis is being given in the development of chemical and biological priming technologies towards the amelioration of abiotic stress factors and promotion of plant growth.