Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas | Thessaloniki | Greece
Theodora Farmaki is an Agronomist, Principal Investigator of the Institute of Applied Biosciences at CERTH, the Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a Masters (MSc) in Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology from the University of London and a PhD in Anatomy and Physiology from the University of Dundee, Great Britain. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the framework of the European Marie Curie postdoctoral programs at the National Center of Biotechnology (CNB) in Madrid, Spain, as well as in the framework of the European EMBO fellowships. She is a member of COST actions Proteostasis and Transautophagy and Invited Professor of the “Systems Biology” postgraduate program of the Agricultural University of Athens. Her current research interests include the study of molecular and biochemical mechanisms of plant resistance to environmental stresses and the production of plants (mainly crops) resistant to adverse climatic conditions such as high temperatures, frost and drought.