Dr Kalliope K. Papadopoulou is a member of the Advisory Board of the project, and the Host Institute’s Deputy Principal Investigator.
Kalliope Papadopoulou (Prof. in Plant Biotechnology) has a first degree in Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens. Her post-graduate studies involved research work in The Netherlands, U.K. and Germany. She is at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology since October 2005. Before that she was an Associate Researcher at the National Agricultural Research Foundation and a Marie-Curie Grant Holder at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, U.K.
Her main research interests are in plant specialized metabolism (biosynthesis, production in heterologous systems, biological activities) and in plant-microbe interactions, with emphasis on endophytic fungi, symbiotic relationships and multi-partite interactions. She has coordinated and participated in >30 projects, funded by the EU, National Bodies, and by agro-industries. She has acted as Deputy Director of the OMIC-ENGINE Research Infrastructure on Synthetic Biology in the Agrofood Sector and currently coordinates the PRIMA program INTOMED.