University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Department of Plant Pathology. Graduate Student (Ph.D.) GPA=3.95/4.0.
My PhD was funded from 2000-2002 by the “ICRISAT-International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics-India and from 2002 to 2004 I received a Crop Protection Graduate Fellowship from Novartis (Syngenta). In July 2004, I received the “Dr. George Washington Carver Award” from the United States National Peanut Board for my achievements on “Strategies to reduce aflatoxin contamination utilizing peanut and Aspergillus fatty acid molecules”.
Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece. B.Sc. Diploma from Department of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology (Minor: Plant Pathology). 09/91-09/96. GPA=3.6/4.0. Graduation with Distinction.
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Director of Plant Protection and Environment Section, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 12/2017 – today
Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 05/2017 – today
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology, Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 02/2012-04/2017
Lecturer of Plant Pathology, Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 06/2007-01/2012
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich. 01/2005 – 06/2007. Group Leader: Prof. Jonathan D.G. Jones
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 08/2004 – 12/2004. PI: Dr. Nancy P. Keller
Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.), Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 01/2001- 07/2004. Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Nancy P. Keller
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University 09/1999-12/2000. Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Nancy P. Keller
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2007 – today
Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. Undergraduate courses: 1) Introduction to Plant Pathology, 2) Diseases of Fruit Crops and Vines, 3) Diseases of Field Crops, 4) Principles and Methods of Plant Disease Management, 5) Principles and Methods of Plant Disease Diagnosis, 6) Applied Plant Physiology – Plant Stresses diagnosis, 7) Post Harvest Diseases of Vegetables, 8) Plant Virology. Postgraduate courses: 1) Plant Microbe Interactions, 2) Molecular Plant Pathology
2007 – today
Actively involved in vocational education training of farmers, young and adult people who want to get involved professionally in agriculture, through short-term seminars held in AUA or in Institute of Agricultural Science (www.ige.gr). Significant experience in management and coordination of training courses through the implementation of LIFE+, TEMPUS and ERASMUS projects.
2013-today
Lecture on Plant-Fungal Interactions, MSc Postgraduate studies. Department of Plant Biology, University of Crete, Greece.
06.2012
Τraining activity in “Mycotoxins”, Faculty of Plant Protection and Agroecology, Agricultural University of Plovdviv, Bulgaria (for faculty and graduate students)
07.2013
Τraining activity in "Clinical Field and Lab Plant Disease Diagnosis, Biological Control and Specimen Collection”, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (for faculty and graduate students)
09.1999 - 05. 2000
Teaching Assistant, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, USA. Course: Introductory Plant Pathology
09-12.2002and 2004
Teaching Assistant , Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Courses: 1) Plants, Parasites and People, 2) Introduction to Plant Pathology
AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST
Epidemiology and Integrated management of mycotoxigenic fungi and mycotoxins
Validation and development of prediction models and Decision Support Systems for plant diseases in grapevines
Epidemiology and Integrated management of olive anthracnose and Alternaria bud and blossom blight in olives
Development of Integrated management strategies of plant diseases using Decision Support Systems
Dr. George Washington Carver Award for excellence in peanut aflatoxin research and service to the community. National Peanut Board. July 2004.
Novartis (Syngenta) Crop Protection Graduate Fellowship 07/02-07/04. Competitive grant that covered salary/benefits for 2 years.
2004. Nomination from the International Society for Plant-Microbe Interactions for a Seat on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. The Nomination Committee has identified Dr. Tsitsigiannis as one of 6 candidates internationally.
Graduation with Highest Honors from the Agricultural University of Athens. 1st in Dean’s graduation class list. Declaimed the oath in the graduation ceremony (November 1996).
Recipient every academic year of the Academic Performance Scholarship from the National Greek Scholarship Foundation (IKY), Athens, Greece (1991-1995).
Το ΚΕΔΙΒΙΜ αποτελεί Μονάδα του ΓΠΑ, που εξασφαλίζει το συντονισμό και τη διεπιστημονική συνεργασία στην ανάπτυξη προγραμμάτων επιμόρφωσης, συνεχιζόμενης εκπαίδευσης, κατάρτισης και εν γένει δια βίου μάθησης, με βάση το εθνικό και ευρωπαϊκό θεσμικό πλαίσιο για τη Δια Βίου Μάθηση
