Professor George-John Nychas is Director of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Biotechnology of Foods of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece where he is teaching Food Microbiology and Food Safety since 1994. He has been actively involved with food safety and consumer protection issues serving as (i) President of the Greek Food Authority, (ii) member of the Biohazard group of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), being expert in Predictive modelling / Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), (iii) Member of the Advisory Forum of EFSA (iv) Member of the “Food Safety Panel –Prevention & Control of BSE/TSE & of other Biological Hazards” of the European Parliament.
Professor Nychas is member of the pool of scientific advisors on risk assessment for DG SANCO, while he has nominated Chairman of the Scientific Working Group in Food Safety of the European Technological Platform. He has been involved in a wide range of activities, whose actually their main aim was to foster international collaboration including transatlantic collaboration (EU-USA) in food safety. This is achieved through European Research programs in which he either coordinated or participated (6 and 20 respectively) dealing with microbial physiology of pathogenic and spoilage organisms in different environments (biotic, or abiotic environments).
Regarding his publication activity, this is evident by independent sources of international impact (Scopus; 303 publications, > 17150 citations (May 2022), h factor 74).
Biography
Professor George-John Nychas is Director of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Biotechnology of Foods of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece where he is teaching Food Microbiology and Food Safety since 1994. He has been actively involved with food safety and consumer protection issues serving as (i) President of the Greek Food Authority, (ii) member of the Biohazard group of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), being expert in Predictive modelling / Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), (iii) Member of the Advisory Forum of EFSA (iv) Member of the “Food Safety Panel –Prevention & Control of BSE/TSE & of other Biological Hazards” of the European Parliament.
Professor Nychas is member of the pool of scientific advisors on risk assessment for DG SANCO, while he has nominated Chairman of the Scientific Working Group in Food Safety of the European Technological Platform. He has been involved in a wide range of activities, whose actually their main aim was to foster international collaboration including transatlantic collaboration (EU-USA) in food safety. This is achieved through European Research programs in which he either coordinated or participated (6 and 20 respectively) dealing with microbial physiology of pathogenic and spoilage organisms in different environments (biotic, or abiotic environments).
Regarding his publication activity, this is evident by independent sources of international impact (Scopus; 303 publications, > 17150 citations (May 2022), h factor 74).