Petros DAMOS

Dr. Petros Damos was born in Berlin, Germany, where he received his primary education. He holds a broad multidisciplinary academic background spanning agricultural, health, educational, and computational sciences.

He completed a four-year Diploma in Crop Production at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece (1999). He subsequently earned a five-year Diploma in Agronomy with Integrated Master’s degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece (2003), followed by an M.Sc. in Plant Protection from AUTh (2004). In parallel, he obtained a Diploma Supplement in Teaching and Didactics in Technological Education from ASPAITE, Greece (2006). He later completed a five-year Diploma in Pharmacy at AUTh (2010) and an additional M.Sc. in Web Science: Complex Systems and Networks from the Department of Mathematics, AUTh (2012).

Dr. Damos holds two doctoral degrees. He earned his first Ph.D. in Agronomy from AUTh (2009) as a scholar of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), specializing in Entomology and Integrated Pest Management (IPM), followed by three postdoctoral fellowships. He subsequently obtained a second Ph.D. in Health Sciences from the University of Alicante, Spain (2021), graduating with the International Doctorate Mention and Cum Laude distinction, specializing in vector-borne disease modelling and public health.

Since 2009, he has held various adjunct academic appointments at AUTh, the University of Western Macedonia (UOWM), and postgraduate programmes at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC). He has taught Economic Entomology and related disciplines, supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate theses – including more than ten Master’s theses at OUC – and served as an external evaluator and examination committee member for doctoral theses at the Universities of Lleida and Alicante, Spain. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he also served as a Clinical Pharmacist at AHEPA University Hospital.

Since 2018, Dr. Damos has served as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Physiology and as an active reviewer for high-impact journals and research funding agencies. Notably, he has served as a Scientific Expert and proposal evaluator for the French National Research Agency (ANR France) within its Generic Call evaluation process. He has participated in several competitive research initiatives, including LIFE and Horizon projects, and is the recipient of multiple postdoctoral fellowships and academic distinctions.

To date, Dr. Damos has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including over ten scientific monographs, numerous book chapters, and one educational textbook, with contributions also appearing in IOBC editions. He has delivered more than 60 presentations at international scientific conferences and meetings.

He currently serves as a tenured educator in Vocational Health Sciences Education in Greece and as coordinator of the Medical–Biological–Pharmacy Laboratory. Concurrently, he continues his academic and research activity as a Senior Research Fellow at several institutions, including the University of Western Macedonia (UOWM), Greece.

His research interests encompass entomology and integrated pest management (IPM), ecological informatics and decision-support systems, algorithm development, machine learning and artificial neural network applications in entomology and ecology, spatial and ecological modelling, bio demography and biostatistics, complex systems and ecological networks, and vector-borne disease modelling.

He is fluent in Greek, German, English, and French.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4055-0977