Professor Dimitris Chatziplis

Visitor (Professor at International Hellenic University)

I graduated from the Department of Animal Production at the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki Greece, in 1990. Upon completing my undergraduate studies, I continued my postgraduate studies at Aberdeen University, on a full scholarship. I obtained my Master of Science degree in Animal Production, with focus on Animal Reproduction, in 1991. I started my PhD studies at the University of Edinburgh and Roslin Institute, in 1994 on a full scholarship and I successfully completed them in 1998 in the area of applications of Quantitative Genetics in animal genetic improvement and specifically the use of modern molecular methods to detect Quantitative Trait Loci.

After a two-year post-doctoral stint at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, I accepted an offer for a Research Geneticist position in Rossbreeders Ltd (later Aviagen Ltd.) in Edinburgh. Working in Aviagen Ltd I successfully expanded the application of multitrait animal model, I have also looked into methods of incorporating molecular genetics in the breeding program as well as introducing novel traits and improving selection criteria of existing selection objectives in the international poultry breeding programs of the company.

In 2005 I returned fulltime to academia as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Production at the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece where I researched and taught genetics, bioinformatics and animal breeding. In 2013 I was elected the head of Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and Inspection of Agricultural Products of the Department of Agriculture. The laboratory has sufficient infrastructure and equipment to contact research in various fields of Agriculture including plant and animal genomics. The Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki was merged with other three Higher Education Institutes to form the International Hellenic University in 2018 to which I am a Professor of Genetics and Animal Breeding since 2019. I conduct research on animal, plant, farmed fish and other agricultural related species in the area of molecular, population and quantitative genetics as well as in the fields of animal breeding and genomics, supervise PhD students and also teach at undergraduate and graduate levels.