Faculty Members
Associate Professor (President of the Department)
pzoump@uniwa.gr
Phone
+30 210 538 5522
Office Address
Κ11.034
Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis is an associate professor and Head of the department of Food Science and Technology of the University of West Attica. He holds a degree and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Patras (GR) and an MBA from the Athens University of Economics and Business (GR). From 2008 to 2020, he held a position as a Researcher and Principle Investigator at the Institute of Chemical Biology of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) and from 2015 is a visiting professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the University of Thessaly. His scientific fields of interest are focusing on the design and analysis of bioactive compounds. He has a scientific track record of 130 peer review scientific publications and 26 national and European grants, 10 of which as a coordinator and/or Principal Investigator. He has working experience in marketing innovation, technology transfer and entrepreneurship, focusing on the start-up ecosystem.
Research fields
Molecular design and bioanalysis.
Representative publications
Insights into intrauterine growth restriction based on maternal and umbilical cord blood metabolomics, Moros, G., Boutsikou, T., Fotakis, C., Iliodromiti, Z., Sokou, R., Katsila, T., Xanthos, T., Iacovidou, N., Zoumpoulakis, P.*, Scientific Reports (2021), 11 (1), art. no. 7824, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87323-7
Linking the IL-17A immune response with NMR-based faecal metabolic profile in IBD patients treated with Mastiha, Amerikanou, C., Dimitropoulou, E., Gioxari, A., Papada, E., Tanaini, A., Fotakis, C., Zoumpoulakis, P.*, Kaliora, A.C., Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, (2021), 138, art. no. 111535, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2021.111535
On the Identification and Quantification of Ergothioneine and Lovastatin in Various Mushroom Species: Assets and Challenges of Different Analytical Approaches, Tsiantas, K., Tsiaka, T., Koutrotsios, G., Siapi, E., Zervakis, G.I., Kalogeropoulos, N., Zoumpoulakis, P.*, Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), (2021), 26 (7), DOI: 10.3390/molecules26071832
Choline chloride and tartaric acid, a Natural Deep Eutectic Solvent for the efficient extraction of phenolic and carotenoid compounds, Spyridon Koutsoukos, Thalia Tsiaka, Andromachi Tzani, Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis*, Anastasia Detsi, J. Clean. Prod., (2019), 241, 118384, DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118384.
Effects of Infrared Radiation on Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) Greenhouse Cultivation and Fruits’ Phenolic Profile, Vassilia J. Sinanoglou, Angeliki Kavga, Irini F. Strati, Georgios Sotiroudis, Dimitra Lantzouraki and Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis*, Foods 2019, 8, 630; doi:10.3390/foods8120630.
Current Running Funded Projects
Links
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9348-6078
GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=joRHYzsAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Panagiotis_Zoumpoulakis
Currently teaching (undergraduate)
Biochemistry
Advanced Analytical Methods
Quantitative Analytical Chemistry
Food Marketing