Athanasios C. Pappas is an Associate Professor at Agricultural University of Athens (Greece). He graduated (2002) with a BSc in Agricultural Sciences from the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece). He then awarded a PhD from the University of Glasgow (UK) in 2006. The research conducted during his PhD studies was on poultry nutrition. Athanasios spent one year (2008-2009) as Postdoctoral researcher at Agricultural University of Athens. In 2010, he was appointed Lecturer and in 2016 Assistant Professor at the Department of Nutritional Physiology and Feeding of the Agricultural University of Athens. His published scientific work includes but not limited to 73 peer-reviewed papers published in international journals, 1 book, 8 book chapters and 77 conference presentations, with h-index 24.
He was coordinator of 3 research projects, deputy coordinator of 4 research projects and participated in 19 projects. He is/ was supervisor of 2 PhD candidates and member of 10 PhD supervising or examination committees. He has supervised 8 MSc students and has been a member of the supervising committee of another 6 postgraduate students. He supervises/co-supervised more than 150 undergraduate students. The research interests focus on nutrition of poultry, food waste, antioxidants, trace elements and circular economy.