Leandros Skaltsounis

Full professor in Pharmacognosy and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Athens. He obtained his Ph.D. from Descartes University, Paris V on 1987 under the supervision of Professor Francois Tillequin where he spent six year as academic staff. He was visiting professor in Orleans and Innsbruck Universities as well as in Chinese Academy of Science. At present he leads a research group of more than 30 researchers focusing on natural product-based lead discovery for various applications as therapeutics, functional foods, cosmetics and agrochemicals. Parallel research activities have been deployed concerning new agricultural processes related to medicinal plants and the solution in environmental problems derived from agricultural wastes. He is also the founder of Pharmagnose spin-off biotechnological company (2013). He has participated in 15 EU projects, 8 as coordinator and has organized the 7th Joint meeting on Natural products chemistry, Athens in 2008 and the IUPAC 30th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products Athens, in 2018. To date he has published 410 papers and 20 patents with more than 22.000 citations with an h-index of 69.