Professor
stathispanagou@aua.gr
Efstathios Z. Panagou
Professor in Quantitative Food Microbiology
Dr E.Z. Panagou received his Ph.D. degree in July 2002 from the Department of Food Science and Technology of the Agricultural University of Athens. His previous employment has been with the Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products of the Greek Ministry for Agriculture, as technical personnel, for almost 15 years. In April 2007, he joined the Department of Food Science and Technology of the Agricultural University of Athens, as a Lecturer in the Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Biotechnology. He has participated in 33 research projects funded by the EU and national authorities. His research interests focus on: (a) the application of rapid analytical techniques (FT-IR, Raman, electronic nose, multispectral imaging) in the assessment of food spoilage in tandem with multivariate statistical methods and exploratory data analysis, (b) modelling the microbial responses in various food ecosystems, (c) microbial ecology of fermented foods of plant origin with emphasis on table olives, and (d) effect of ecophysiological factors on the growth and toxin production of fungi. In the period 2002-2023, he published 132 original research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals of the SCI (h-index: 39; citations > 4,900) and 16 book chapters.