KONTOYANNIS, Christos

1988: PhD in Electrochemistry, Georgetown Univ., USA
1986: M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry, Georgetown Univ., USA
1983: Diploma in Chemistry, Univ. of Patras, Greece

• • New Diagnostic Tools for Bone Diseases
  • Drug Polymorphic Stability and Identification in Formulations
  • Development of non-destructive analytical methods using spectroscopic (Raman, IR, XRF) and electrochemical techniques (DPP, Impedance spectroscopy, CV). Applications in bio-ceramics, drugs, urinary stones, bones, liposomes, polymers etc.

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2002-2007: Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacy, Univ. of Patras, Greece
1995-2002: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacy, Univ. of Patras, Greece
1991-1995: Lecturer, Dept. of Pharmacy, Univ. of Patras, Greece
1990-1991: Post-Doctoral Fellow, ICE/HT-FORTH, Greece
1983-1986: Teaching Assistant, Georgetown University

Greek State Scholarship (1983).
Teaching Fellowship (1983-1986) and Research Fellowship (1986-1988), Georgetown University.
Honorary Fellowship-Electrochemical Society (1985-1988).
European Science Foundation Fellow (1994).
3rd Poster Prize NATO Advance Study Institute on “Molten Salts: from Fundamentals to Application” (2001).
1^st and 2^nd Poster prize for the posters: Monitoring the transformation of Anagrelide HCl phase II to free base in capsules during stability studies” (Graduate student G. Manika) and «Searching for the Chemical Changes induced by osteoarthritis on Human Meniscus Using Raman Spectroscopy» (Graduate student P. Papaspyridakou), 2nd Conference of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 9-11 October 2014, Patras, Greece.
2nd prize for the poster: “Monitoring Fracture Healing in Mice Tibia Using Raman Spectroscopy and X-ray Microtomography” (Graduate student P. Giannoutsou), 12th International Conference on Instrumental Methods of Analysis: Modern Trends and Applications, September 20-23, 2021.

1990-2020: Partner or Coordinator in international (JOULE, BRITE, ENVIRONMENT, HUMAN MOBILITY, RAW MATERIALS, NATO, ENERGIE, GROWTH) or national (PENED, EPET, Greek-Romania bilateral) programmes.

67 refereed journal papers. 59 refereed and 3 non-referred papers in international conference proceedings. Co-editor of 5 proceeding volumes of international conferences. 1 Greek patent, Translation of chapters in Greek of the textbooks: a) Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight” (W. H. Freeman; Seventh edition (2016), p. 1088), P. Atkins, L. Jones, L. Laverman; b) “Physical Chemistry for the Chemical Sciences” (University Science Books, 2014),R. Chang and J.W. Thoman, c) “Chemistry for Engineering Students” (CENGAGE, Fourth edition 2019), L. Brown and T. Holme.

Presentations in 146 international and national conferences.

Chair of Department of Pharmacy: 2003-2007; Vice Chair: 2009-2011; Senate University of Patras: 2003-2007; Research Committee Univ. of Patras: 2004-2013; Bioethics Committee: 2009-2014; Instrumental Pharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory Director 2006-.

Academic Duties
EU (REA-FP7) project evaluator; GSRT project evaluator; Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation evaluator; Journal Reviewer: Applied Spectroscopy, Analytica Chimica Acta, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Journal of Membrane Science, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Chemistry of Materials, Talanta, Journal Molecular Structure, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Analytical Chemistry, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Spectroscopy Letters, Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, Portugaliae Electrochimica Acta, Electrochimica Acta, Current Pharmaceutical Analysis, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Journal of Nanostructured Polymers and Nanocomposites, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Analytical Methods, Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology.

Other
Collaboration with numerous Pharmaceutical companies (foreign and domestic) for the development of new formulations. Annual funding from industry ca. 500 k€.

Greek Chemist Association. Electrochemical Society. American Chemical Society. Society of Applied Spectroscopy, Hellenic Society of Biomaterials (founding member).

1992-2021: Instrumental Analysis, Separation Techniques and Electrochemical Methods, Organic Spectroscopy, Physical Chemistry (Undergraduate Courses, Dept. of Pharmacy, Univ. of Patras, Greece).
1994-2021: Electrochemical Methods, Modern Instrumental Analysis, Analytical Spectroscopy (Graduate Courses, Dept. of Pharmacy, Univ. of Patras, Greece).

• H. Blair, E. Kalyvioti, N. Papachristou, I. Tourkova, S. Syggelos, D. Deligianni, M. Orkoula, C. Kontoyannis, E. Karavia, K. Kypreos, D. Papachristou “Apolipoprotein A-1 (ApoA-1) Regulates Osteoblast and Lipoblast Precursor Cells in Mice”, Laboratory Investigation, 96 (2016) 763-772.
• G. Tooulakou, A. Giannopoulos, D. Nikolopoulos, P. Bresta, E. Dotsika, M. Orkoula, C. Kontoyannis, C. Fasseas, G. Liakopoulos, M. Klapa, and G. Karabourniotis “Alarm Photosynthesis: Calcium Oxalate Crystals as an Internal CO2 Source in Plants”, Plant Physiology, 171 (2016) 2577–2585.
• Eleni Kamilari, Konstantinos Farsalinos, Konstantinos Poulas, Christos G. Kontoyannis, Malvina G. Orkoula, “Detection and quantitative determination of heavy metals in electronic cigarette refill liquids using Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry”, Food and Chemical Toxicology, 116, Part B, (2018) 233–237.
• Georgia Tooulakou, Dimosthenis Nikolopoulos, Elissavet Dotsika, Malvina G. Orkoula, Christos G. Kontoyannis, Georgios Liakopoulos, Maria I. Klapa, George Karabourniotis, “Changes in size and composition of pigweed (Amaranthus hybridus L.) calcium oxalate crystals under CO2 starvation conditions”, Physiologia Plantarum 166 (2019) 862–872.
• Michail Lykouras, Stefani Fertaki, Malvina Orkoula and Christos Kontoyannis, “Sample Preparation of Posaconazole Oral Suspensions for Identification of the Crystal Form of the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient”, Molecules 2020; 25(24):6032.
• Ioanna Chrisikou, Malvina Orkoula and Christos Kontoyannis, “FT-IR/ATR Solid Film Formation: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of a Piperacillin-Tazobactam Formulation” , Molecules 2020; 25(24):6051.
• Ioanna Chrisikou, Malvina Orkoula and Christos Kontoyannis, “Analysis of IV Drugs in the Hospital Workflow by Raman Spectroscopy: The Case of Piperacillin and Tazobactam”, Molecules 2021, 26, 5879.