Academic discipline: Vegetable Crops
Telephone number: +302810-379428
Email: dfanourakis@hmu.gr
Office hours: Daily in person and online, following appointment

 Courses

• Introduction to Vegetable Crops
• Major Vegetable Crops
• Advances in Vegetable Production

 Studies

• Diploma (Plant Biotechnology), Agricultural University of Athens, Greece (2004)
• MSc (Greenhouse Horticulture), Wageningen University, The Netherlands (Scholarship Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation) (2007)
• PhD (Plant Physiology), Wageningen University, The Netherlands (Scholarship Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation) (2011)

Research Interests

• Large-scale high-throughput non-invasive phenotyping
• External and internal quality of plant products
• Batch differentiation based on external (non-visual) quality characteristics
• Redesigning growth conditions towards improved internal quality
• Effects of light characteristics (quality, intensity and photoperiod) on plant morphology and physiology
• Inclusion of specific wavelengths of light in the storage of agricultural products
• Water relations (from organ level to whole plant level)
• Relationship between anatomy and physiology of plant organs
• Environmental Physiology
• Physiology of Water Stress
• Indoor vertical production systems

Additional Information

• Editor at the journal Horticulturae (MDPI), member of the Editorial Board at the journal Frontiers in Plant Science and reviewer in (>20) scientific journals.
• Member of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) and the Hellenic Society of Horticultural Sciences.

Hyperlinks

• Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=OtwJjwsAAAAJ&hl=el
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitrios-Fanourakis-2
• Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35361862300