Dimitrios Savvas

Dimitrios Savvas was born in Ioannina, Greece in 1961. He was awarded a Diploma in Agriculture from the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) in 1985 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Bonn, Germany, in 1992. From 1996 to 2006 he was affiliated with the Technological Educational Institution of Epirus as an associate professor (1996-1999) and professor (1999-2006). In 2006 he became an assistant professor in the Department of Crop Science of the Agricultural University of Athens. In 2011 he was promoted to the degree of associate professor and since October 2015 he is a full Professor in AUA. Since October 2016 he is the Director of the Laboratory of Vegetable Production. He specializes in plant nutrition, water management, soilless culture and vegetable grafting with emphasis on greenhouse crops. He has published over 80 papers in refereed international scientific journals (with IF) and many other papers in congress proceedings (Acta Hort.) and as book chapters. He has an h-index of 19 in Scopus and 963 hetero-citations of his publications (updated Feb. 2018). He is a member of the Editorial Board in four international scientific journals with impact factor, particularly Scientia Horticulturae (I.F. 1.624 in 2016), Environmental & Experimental Botany (I.F. 4.369 in 2016), Agricultural Water Management (I.F. 2.848 in 2016) and European Journal of Horticultural Science (I.F. 0.446 in 2016). He has been involved in many EU research projects, either as coordinator or as a member of the research team. In the last 5 years, in addition to several national research projects, he has been involved in the European research projects LEGUME FUTURES (FP7, coordinator for AUA), SIRRIMED (FP7, member of the research team) and EUROLEGUME (FP7, coordinator for AUA), as well as in two LEONARDO Projects related to plant irrigation and hydroponics (AGRICOM) and Environmental Education (GreeNet). Since 2017 he is the coordinator of the AUA team in two HORIZON2020 research projects, particularly TOMRES and TRUE. A detailed CV of Dimitrios Savvas can be found at: http://www.ekk.aua.gr/index.php?sec=members&item=4&doc=2).