Academic Status: 2007 Masters of Business Administration (Executive MBA), Athens University of Economics and Business. 2004 PhD in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras. 1999 Diploma in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras.
Previous Positions: 31/10/2006-30/6/2010: Research Associate, Department of Food Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Athens 1/12/2004-30/11/06: Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Research Activities
Structure/Ligand based drug design using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) and Molecular Modeling.
Identification/tracing of functional compounds in food and beverages using NMR techniques.
NMR based metabolomic studies in the field of food and beverages
Participation in Funding Projects: Participation in 12 National and European Funding Research Projects
Publications:
25 publications in peer review scientific journals and book chapters
10 publications in Greek scientific journals
16 publications in refereed proceedings
45 abstracts in conference proceedings
2 books and educational handouts
Workshops
Organization of two workshops in Molecular Modeling
Scholarships: (2005): Υποτροφία ΙΚΥ για μεταδιδακτορική έρευνα στην Ελλάδα. (2005) Υποτροφία ESF/EMBO «NMR στη Μοριακή Βιολογία» Χόορ, Σουηδία. (1998) Υποτροφία Erasmus/Socrates (Πανεπιστήμιο Greenwich, Λονδίνο- Αγγλία)
Representative recent publications
Antihypertensive Drug Valsartan in solution and at the AT1 Receptor: Conformational Analysis, Dynamic NMR Spectroscopy, in silico Docking and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Constantinos Potamitis, Maria Zervou, Vassilis Katsiaras, Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis, Serdar Durdagi, Manthos G. Papadopoulos, Joseph M. Hayes, Simona Golic Grdadolnik, Ioanna Kyrikou, Dimitris Argyropoulos, Georgia Vatougia, Thomas Mavromoustakos, J. Chem. Inf. Model. 49 (3),(2009),726-739.
A computational study on cannabinoid receptors and potent bioactive cannabinoid ligands: homology modeling, docking, de novo drug design and molecular dynamics analysis, Serdar Durdagi, Manthos G. Papadopoulos, Panagiotis G. Zoumpoulakis, Catherine Koukoulitsa, Thomas Mavromoustakos, Molecular Diversity, 14, (2010), 257-276.
Novel 4-thiazolidinone derivatives as potential antifungal and antibacterial drugs, Kouatli Omar, Athina Geronikaki, Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis, Charalabos Camoutsis, Marina Sokovic, Ana Ciric, Jasmina Clamoclija, Bioorg. Med. Chem. 18, (2010), 426-432.
Screening for Bioactive Compounds of Plant Origin using NMR-based and in silico approaches,M. Zervou, C. Koukoulitsa, P. Zoumpoulakis, In Plants in Traditional and Modern Medicine: Chemistry and activity, Kokalou E. (Ed.), 2010: 235-266, Research Signpost; Keral, India, ISBN: 978-81-7895-432-5