Nikolaos E. Labrou
Professor
Agricultural University of Athens
Greece
Biography
Dr Nikolaos E. Labrou received his BSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Patras, Greece (1987-1991) and his PhD in Enzyme Biotechnology from the Agricultural University of Athens (1992-1996). He has conducted postdoctoral research, as Marie Curie fellow, in Leeds UK (1996-1998) and then at Agricultural University of Athens (1998-2001). Dr Labrou started his career as Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens (2002) and he is currently full Professor with tenure and Director of the Enzyme Technology Lab at Agricultural University of Athens. His research takes place where molecular enzymology, chemistry and nanobiotechnology meet and covers aspects of the entire range from pure to applied science. Professor Labrou has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals and has published two books (Springer). Dr. Labrou is an Editor-in-Chief for the journal Recent Patents on Biotechnology, Associate Editor for the Protein Journal (Springer) and he is on the Editorial Board of several scientific journals (Enz. Microb. Technol; Protein & Peptide Let., etc).
Research Interest
Dr. Nikolaos Labrou research covers many areas of biotechnology including downstream processing, enzyme and protein engineering, cell and tissue culture technologies, proteomics and catalomics analysis as well as the purification and characterization of enzymes, proteins and other biomolecules, molecular enzymology and analytical biotechnology.