Paraskevi Polymenakou

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Personal InformationParaskevi Polymenakou
PositionPrincipal Researcher
Field & DegreeEnviron. Microbiology, PhD
Research FieldEnvironmental Microbiology/ Extreme Environments
E-mail Address polymen@hcmr.gr
Phone+30 2810 337855
AddressHCMR Thalassocosmos 71500 Gournes, Crete, Greece
ORCID iD0000-0002-9787-7372

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
Submarine Volcano Monitoring Using Intelligent Vehicles
Marine Genomic Observatories
Nagoya Protocol

Paraskevi N. Polymenakou is Researcher in Environmental Microbiology with specialization in extreme environments. Her research is focused on molecular microbial ecology and monitoring 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 18 international (EU & USA) and national research projects. Her research work has been presented in 50 publications (19 as the first author and 18 as the corresponding author) in peer-reviewed international journals and in 2 Book Chapters. The accumulative journal impact factor corresponding to her publications is 318.62 and the average is 6.372 (2021 ISI impact factors; h-index: 24). Her publications so far have received 2601 citations (2318 excluding self-citations: Scopus– 15 July 2024).

Publication recordNo of ProjectsThesis supervision
H-index (scopus): 24Coordinator: 1PhD: 3
Articles: 52Princ. Invest.: 9MSc: 6
Citations-total: 2,601Project member: 14BSc: 2
Citations-nonself: 2,318Funding: 916,909
Year (completed) Degree, Department, University, Town (optional), Country
1998Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
2000Master Thesis in Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
2005Ph.D. Thesis in Environmental Organic Chemistry and Marine Microbiology, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Year (start) Position – Organization, Town (optional), Country
2021Researcher Grade B, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion Crete, Greece
2017Researcher Grade C, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion Crete, Greece
2007Research Scientist with open contract, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion Crete, Greece
2003Research Scientist, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Heraklion Crete, Greece
2001Research assistant, Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
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