Environmental Microbiology of Extreme Environments with Emphasis on Volcanologically Active Marine Environments
Ocean Drilling at Active Submarine Volcanic Systems (IODP EXP398)
Bioprospecting of Genomes/Metagenomes - Marine Biotechnology
Antibiotic Resistance
Microbial Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Marine Genomic Observatories
Deep-sea Mining Impacts on Microbial Ecosystems
Paraskevi N. Polymenakou is Researcher in Environmental Microbiology with specialization in extreme environments. Her research is focused on molecular microbial ecology of extreme environments including submarine volcanoes and hydrothermal vents, on the microbiology of the deep subsurface (IODP 398), on bioprospecting of genomic and metagenomics data and the genomic observation of ecosystems vulnerable to changes. She is the scientific responsible of the Environmental Microbiology Lab at IMBBC. She has also initiated the IMBBC microbial strain collection from extreme environments for biotechnological exploitation. She has been involved as Principal Investigator or Collaborator in 17 international (EU & USA) and national research projects. Her research work has been presented in 47 publications (18 as the first author and 17 as the corresponding author) in peer-reviewed international journals and in 2 Book Chapters. The accumulative journal impact factor corresponding to her publications is 283.125 and the average is 6.024 (2021 ISI impact factors; h-index: 24). Her publications so far have received 2326 citations (2082 excluding self-citations: Scopus– 07 April 2023).
Publication record
No of Projects
Thesis supervision
H-index (scopus): 24
Coordinator: 1
PhD: 2
Articles: 49
Princ. Invest.: 8
MSc: 4
Citations-total: 2,326
Project member: 14
BSc: 2
Citations-nonself: 2,082
Funding: 417,958
Year (completed)
Degree, Department, University, Town (optional), Country
1998
Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
2000
Master Thesis in Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
2005
Ph.D. Thesis in Environmental Organic Chemistry and Marine Microbiology, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Year (start)
Position – Organization, Town (optional), Country
2021
Researcher Grade B, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion Crete, Greece
2017
Researcher Grade C, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion Crete, Greece
2007
Research Scientist with open contract, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion Crete, Greece
2003
Research Scientist, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Heraklion Crete, Greece
2001
Research assistant, Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, Heraklion, Greece