In 1997, he  was  awarded  a  doctoral  thesis  in  animal  husbandry  at  the  same University.  He  also  holds  a  Ph.D  in  behavioural  nutrition,  awarded  from  the University  of  Edinburgh  in  2001.

 

He is currently  professor  in  Animal Husbandry at the School of Veterinary Medicine of the Aristotle University, Greece.

 

He has been member of the EAEVE visiting experts and participated in the evaluation of the  Faculty  of  Veterinary  Medicine  in  Brno,  Czech  Republic  (2004)  and  the veterinary Faculty in Lugo, Spain (2008). He has extensive clinical experience in sheep and goat medicine, as well as broad experience on improving productivity, health, reproduction and management of other farm animals, particularly beef and dairy cattle. He has participated  in  20  research  programs,  mostly  EU-funded,  and  has  managed  a series of field trials for drug testing, funded by Greek pharmaceutical companies. Currently, he is coordinating the iSAGE project: www.isage.eu

 

He has  published extensively (2 theses, 1 book, 7 book  chapters, 56  papers in international refereed journals, 6 papers in Greek refereed journals, 122 abstracts in conference proceedings). He has been awarded an Honorary Lectureship from the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Liverpool (2006), an Erasmus Fellowship (2008) and the 2009 award for Research excellence and novelty, by the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.