Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis is a Professor at as well as the Head of the Respiratory Medicine Department, University of Thessaly. He organized and participated in about 100 research programs on smoking, pleural diseases, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, exercise and the pathophysiology of respiratory diseases, funded by authorities, institutions and companies in Greece and abroad. He has authored/co-authored 399 PubMed publications with 10000 citations and an h-index of 54.