Prof. Aristidis Tsatsakis

Professor and Academician Aristides Tsatsakis was born in Heraklion Crete in 1957. He graduated as a chemical engineer with an M.Sc. in organic chemistry (1982), a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1986), a Post-Doc in Macromolecules Chemistry (D.I. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia), and a D.Sc.in Biology (Pharm-Toxicol, University of Moscow). He worked as a Researcher in the Laboratory of Toxicology and Forensic Science of the Forensic Centre of Baltimore, University of Amversa, and as a visiting Professor in Miami, USA, and the Academy of Health of Moscow. He is the director of the Toxicology & Forensic Sciences Department of the University of Crete and at the University Hospital of Heraklion. He has coordinated as a PI in over 60 scientific research and technology projects and has established worldwide collaborations. The main research interests of Aristides Tsatsakis include biomonitoring and risk assessments of xenobiotics as well as links of chronic exposure to them at low doses with health problems and diseases. He developed numerous biomarkers of exposure and effects for various chemicals, in particular pesticides, pharmaceuticals, etc., uncovering the mechanistic understanding of the mode of action and adverse outcome pathways leading to clinical effects and chronic diseases (metabolic, autoimmune, cancer, etc.).