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Nikolaos Solomakos

Associate Professor

Hygiene of Foods of Animal Origin

 

Research interests


Food safety, Public Health, natural antimicrobials in foods, modified atmosphere packaging, occurrence and behavior of foodborne pathogens in foods of animal origin.

 

Curriculum vitae


Dr Nikolaos Solomakos graduated in 2001 from the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Thessaly and completed his doctoral thesis with a scholarship at the Laboratory of Animal Food Hygiene in the same department, successfully finishing it in 2007. Since 2009, he has served as a faculty member in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Thessaly and is currently an Associate Professor.

He has served as a scientific manager and research team member in national and European research programmes. He is a member of editorial boards and acts as a reviewer for scientific journals. He has published over 130 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He currently supervises three doctoral theses and has supervised more than 20 master's theses, and has participated in over 50 three-member advisory committees for master's theses.
Since 2008, he has been teaching in the following Postgraduate Programmes at the University of Thessaly: "Applied Public Health and Environmental Hygiene" and "Nutrition in Health and Disease" in the Department of Medicine; "Aquaculture – Pathological Problems of Farmed Aquatic Organisms" in the Department of Veterinary Medicine; and "Technology, Quality and Safety of Food of Animal Origin" and "Sustainable Management of the Aquatic Environment" in the Department of Agriculture, Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment.

Full curriculum vitae

 

Courses


  • Technology of Foods of Animal Origin and Relevant Legislation
  • Veterinary Ethics and Legislation
  • Hygiene and Technology of Milk and Dairy Products and Relevant Legislation
  • Hygiene of Foods of Animal Origin and relevant legislation I
  • Hygiene of Foods of Animal Origin II
  • Practical Training in Hygiene of Foods of Animal Origin I
  • Practical Training in Hygiene of Foods of Animal Origin II
  • Food Quality Control & related legislation
 

Selected Publications


  • Grammato Evangelopoulou, Angeliki R. Burriel,  Nikolaos Solomakos (2024) Distinctive Culture Expressions of Enterobacteria Interfering with Isolation of Salmonella spp. during the Application of the Recommended ISO 6579-1:2017.  Applied Sciences, 14(3): 953.
  • Nikolaos Solomakos, Maria Govari, Evropi Botsoglou and Andreana Pexara (2019) Effect of modified atmosphere packaging on physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of Graviera Agraphon cheese during refrigerated storage. Journal of Dairy Research, 86(4): 483-489.
  • Pexara A, Solomakos N., Govaris A. (2018) Q fever and prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in milk. Trends in Food Science and Technology, 71: 65-72.
  • Nikolaos Solomakos, Alexandros Govaris, Apostolos S. Angelidis, Spyros Pournaras, Angeliki Rothi Burriel, Spyridon K. Kritas, Demetrios K. Papageorgiou (2009) Occurrence, virulence genes and antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli O157 isolated from raw bovine, caprine and ovine milk in Greece. Food Microbiology, 26: 865-871.
  • Solomakos, A. Govaris, P. Koidis, N. Botsoglou (2008) Τhe antimicrobial effect of thyme essential oil, nisin, and their combination against Listeria monocytogenes in minced beef during refrigerated storage. Food Microbiology, 25:120 – 127.