Serkos Haroutounian (www.aua.gr\/haroutounian) is professor of Chemistry at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) and Chairman of the Hellenic Agricultural Organization \u201cDIMITRA\u201d, position he also held the period 2013-15. During 2017-19 he served as vice-Rector of Academic-Administrative-Students Affairs of AUA.<\/p>\n
He received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Patras as Gulbenkian Foundation scholar and pursued doctoral studies in the terms of a collaboration between AUA and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Then, he moved to Illinois to carry out postdoctoral research (1986\u201387). After serving the Greek Navy, in 1989 he joined the AUA faculty as lecturer. In 1992\u201393 he returned to Illinois as visiting professor, while in 2002 he was promoted to AUA professor. During 2002-17 he was also appointed at the Hellenic Open University as Professor and Coordinator of Organic Chemistry (Dept. of Natural Sciences).<\/p>\n
His research focuses on the Chemistry of Natural Products aiming the development of novel bioactive preparations for use as food supplements, functional foods, biocides and medicines for humans-animals. He has authored 152 scientific publications, as 141 papers in international scientific journals, 8 book chapters, 2 patents and 1 thesis. He is Editor of the international scientific journals Journal of Chemistry and International Journal of Functional Nutrition and Editorial board member of Toxicology Reports, American Journal of Agricultural Science & Technology and International Journal of Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics.<\/p>\n
In 1999 his research group accomplished and published the first asymmetric total synthesis of the natural product (+)-prosophylline. In 2007 he was elected as member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Armenia. In 2008 the European Commission was awarded his research project for Circular Economy. In 2012 the LIFE unit of EU included his research project DIONYSOS among the best environmental projects of last twenty years. In 2015 his research group published the first critical interpretation of Dioscorides code (1st century AC).<\/p>\n
He has contributed to the promotion and certification (as PDO or PGI) of several traditional products of Greece, such as \u201cFava Santorinis\u201d, \u201cTomataki Santorinis\u201d, \u201cTsipouro Tyrnavou\u201d and the cheeses \u201cKashkaval\u201d and \u201cTsalafouti\u201d. Currently, he implements three projects for the regions of Epirus, Central Greece and Northern Aegean for the promotion and certification of their five traditional agricultural products.<\/p>\n
During 2014-6 he was appointed member of the Scientific Board of the Agro-nutritional committee of the National Committee of Research & Technology of Greece. He served as the Greek delegate at the EU committees for the 7th Research Framework (2005-7) and the SMEs research (2008-10). He is an elected member of the Central Council of the Armenian community of Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Serkos Haroutounian (www.aua.gr\/haroutounian) is professor of Chemistry at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) and Chairman of the Hellenic Agricultural Organization \u201cDIMITRA\u201d, position he also held the period 2013-15. During 2017-19 he served as vice-Rector of Academic-Administrative-Students Affairs of AUA. He received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Patras as Gulbenkian Foundation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2872,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8215","team","type-team","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-of-the-general-assembly"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n