Constantinos Varotsis 21st International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2025

Constantinos Varotsis

CURRICULUM VITAE CONSTANTINOS A. VAROTSIS Birthdate: 28 June 1960 BusinessAddress: Department of Chemical Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, 31 Archbishop Kyprianos, 3036 Lemesos, Cyprus P.O. Box 50329, 3603 Lemesos, Cyprus Telephone: +357-25002451, Fax: +357-25002636. Email: c.varotsis@cut.ac.cy http://ebbl.cut.ac.cy CURRENT POSITION Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Cyprus University of Technology EDUCATION Ph.D in Chemical Physics, Michigan State University, U.S.A June 1990 M.S. in Physics, Northeastern University, U.S.A June 1985 B.S. in Chemistry and Physics, Minor in Mathematics, U. of Cincinnati, U.S.A June 1983 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of Cincinnati Undergraduate Research 1981-1983 Teaching duties for undergraduate students 1983 Northeastern University Teaching Assistant 1983-1985 Research Assistant 1985-1987 Michigan State University Research Assistant 1987-1990 Research Associate 1990-1992 University of Crete Assistant Professor 1993-1999 Associate Professor 1999-2003 Professor 2003-2009 Cyprus University of Technology Professor 2009-now RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES My research focuses on the MarineEnvironmental Chemistry/Biocatalysis and Chemical Biotechnology of environmental substrates and chemical reaction products as well in the marine environmental biochemistry mechanism of the oxidation of CO to CO2 and the photochemical production of CO. The large scale isolation of the enzymes/proteins we have achieved, in conjunction with our expertise in a host of steady state (electronic, Raman, FTIR), UV-resonance Raman and time-resolved FTIR and Raman spectroscopies (from nanoseconds to milliseconds) augmented by biomolecular engineering, permits us to define critical physical and chemical phenomena in Environmental Chemistry and Chemical Biotechnology. Since surface reactivity of chemical species to a great extent is influenced by surface structure, fundamental studies elucidating the orientation and structure of the molecules residing at surfaces are necessary and helpful for understanding Environmental heterogeneous biocatalytic and chemical Biotechnological processes. The application of Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy( LIBS) towards the detection of heavy/toxic metal contamination in the sea environment is also available in my laboratory. Visiting Research Professor, U. of Helsinki, Finland 1/2004- 4/2004 Visiting Research Professor, Michigan State University 1-6/30-9 1994 Visiting Research Professor, Michigan State University 15-6/30-9 1995 Visiting Research Professor, Michigan State University 1-6/30-9 1996 Visiting Research Professor, Michigan State University 1-6/30-9 1997 Okazaki National Research Institute of Biomolecular Sciences, Japan 10/1998- 6/1999 Visiting Assist. Professor, Institute of Biosciences, Okazaki, Japan 8/1999-10/1999 Visiting Research Professor, University of Frankfurt, Germany 6/2000- 9/2000 Visiting Research Professor, EMBL, Germany 9/2001- 6/2002 Visiting Professor, Okazaki National Labs, Japan 8/2003- 6/2004 AWARDS