Georgios Tsoktouridis

Georgios Tsoktouridis is a researcher at the Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources under the Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter in Thessaloniki, Greece. With a Ph.D. from Imperial College (UK) in plant tissue culture and a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Scranton (USA) in molecular comparative genomics, he combines academic rigor with practical expertise.

• Education: Ph.D. in Plant Tissue Culture (Imperial College, UK); Postdoctoral Fellowship in Molecular Comparative Genomics (University of Scranton, USA)

His research focuses on developing new flower crops for the horticultural industry by leveraging Greece's biodiversity through domestication of endemic and native species, particularly rare-threatened and medicinal-aromatic plants. His expertise spans crop cultivation (field and greenhouse), plant nutrition and development, plant tissue culture, and genomics for molecular marker development.

Awards:

• Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy for Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (Department of Horticulture), since 2021