Dimitris Matiadis is an Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens since November 2024. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ioannina in 2005 and completed his Ph.D. at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2013. From 2013 to 2017, as a postdoctoral researcher at the NTUA Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, he focused on the synthesis and study of antimicrobial compounds and cyclic peptides. In 2018, he moved to the Institute of Biosciences & Applications at the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos," where he worked until the end of 2021 on the synthesis of bioactive organic molecules based on curcumin analogs. Since 2019, he has also undertaken teaching and research duties at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of West Attica.

He has received two research fellowships (IKY-SIEMENS 2015–2017 and IKY Postdoctoral Researchers Enhancement 2019–2021). As a member of research teams, he has worked on two projects, "Thales" and "KREPIS."

He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Association of Greek Chemists, and the European Peptide Society.

Since 2019, he has been an evaluator of scientific proposals for the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia and, since 2023, a member of the RSC Researcher Grants Peer Review Group.

He serves as a reviewer for international scientific journals published by Wiley, Springer Nature, RSC, Cell Press, Taylor & Francis, MDPI, and others.

He has 34 publications in international scientific journals (2020–2024: 21 articles), an h-index of 12, and 422 citations of his work (342 excluding self-citations of all authors).

Current Research:

• Synthesis of molecules based on natural products and their analogs to investigate their properties and structure-activity relationships concerning anticancer, antimicrobial, antiparasitic, insecticidal, or other biological activities.
• Design and synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds, such as pyrazolines, and study of their biological or physicochemical properties.
• Development of new chemosensors for the detection and determination of anions, cations, or neutral molecules with applications in food, the environment, cells, or biological fluids.

Professor on Instrumental Chemical Analysis of Natural Products.

Research Interests:
• Isolation, purification and structure determination of natural products using chromatographic (GC-MS/MS, LC-UV/Vis-MS/MS) and spectroscopic techniques (UV-Vis, FT-IR, FT-Raman, NMR).
• Development of new techniques for separation, evaluation and analysis of main compounds of plants cultivated in Greece as Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs), Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) etc.
• Study of Biological Activity of Natural Products (Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, Toxicity etc.)
• Instrumental analysis methods of plants and food analysis.
• FT-IR & Raman Spectroscopic study of microorganisms.
• Development methods for quality determination, adulteration and authenticity (botanical and geographical origin) of food (honey, olive oil etc).

Publications in International Journals (Scopus 2024.06.01): 182, 2020-2024: 49
(Articles: 155; Reviews: 14; Conference Papers: 10; Editorial: 2; Erratum 1.
Citations (Exclude self-citations of all authors): 8340; Subtotal 2020-2024: 3327.
h-index: 52

Mr Emmanuel A. Bouzas graduated from Chemistry Department of the University of Patras and acquired his PhD in Organic Synthesis at the Laboratory of General Chemistry of Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) and the Laboratory of Natural Product Synthesis and Bioorganic Chemistry of the National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos". He is member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Laboratory of General Chemistry of AUA with the research activity "Organic Chemistry with emphasis on the Synthesis of Natural Products". His teaching work mainly concerns laboratory exercises of the undergraduate courses General & Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Instrumental Chemical Analysis and Natural Products: Chemistry and Bioactivity. His research work comprises 5 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals, 13 conference presentations and 1 laboratory text book.

Mrs Dimitra Daferera graduated from Department of Agricultural Industries, now Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of Agricultural University of Athens (A.U.A.), she acquired Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences, and she is member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Laboratory of General Chemistry of A.U.A. with research activity “Instrumental Analysis of Natural Products”.

She is teaching lab exercises of the courses Instrumental Chemical Analysis, General and Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Natural Products: Chemistry and Bioactivity, and she is supporting undergraduate and postgraduate students to carry out their diploma study and/or their practical exercise. 

Her research interests focus on aromatic and medicinal plants, emphasizing the isolation and study of their secondary metabolites, concerning their chemistry and bioactivity. She has participated in 18 research programs, and her research work comprises 104 publications, 34 to national and international conferences, and 70 in international scientific journals which present a high number of citations (excluding self-citations).