Visiting professors
Professor of Animal Physiology – Toxicology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly
Professor of Animal Physiology – Toxicology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly
Dimitrios Kouretas was born in Patras in 1962. He studied Pharmacy at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras (1985) and received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1989). He performed his post-doctoral studies at the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, USA (1990-1992). Since 1996, he is a Teaching and Research Staff at the University of Thessaly.
At present, he is Professor of Animal Physiology – Toxicology at the University of Thessaly and director of the Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly. His research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms of antioxidant activity of plant phenolics, the redox and molecular mechanisms involved in cellular adaptations during exercise, and the functional food development. He has co-authored more than 240 articles in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, which have more than 12000 citations and an h-index of 63. He is an Associate Editor in the scientific journals Food and Chemical Toxicology (Elsevier, IF: 5.572), Environmental Research (Elsevier, IF: 8.431), and Toxicology Reports (Elsevier) and Academic Editor in the scientific journals Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity (Hindawi, IF: 7.310) and Antioxidants (MDPI, IF: 7.675).
Furthermore, he is President of the Hellenic Society of Toxicology (2016-to date), member of the Expert Committee of the Commission on Chemical and Nutrition Crises, since 2018, and member of the World Academy of Science, since 2019. His work on food innovation has received numerous awards in Greece and in the EU.
He is also the founder of FoodOxys PC Spin-off (2019), a spin-off company of the University of Thessaly, which specializes in ensuring nutritional wellness at a personalized level and in evaluating the bioactivity of various natural or synthetic products. Finally, Professor Kouretas has patented a method for the assessment of redox status in a single drop of human capillary blood (Registration Number: TX 8-580-623).