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Education

Degree: PhD
Year: 1996
Institution: AUTH Thessaloniki, Department of Biology

Degree: B.S.
Year: 1981
Institution: AUTH Thessaloniki, Department of Biology

Ioannis Leonardos

Biological Applications and Technology Department

Contact Information

Tel.: +30-26510 07313
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Research topics (related to the Institute)

1. Biology of aquatic organisms

2. Ecotoxicology

Research summary

  1. Fisheries production, fisheries and aquaculture of marine and inland waters,
  2. Ecology, the conservation of biodiversity, the study and management of ecosystems and the interaction of organisms and the environment.
  3. Innovative methods in the cope of alien aquatic organisms.
  4. Ecotoxicological investigation of substances
  5. Fisheries and fisheries management of inland, coastal and marine ecosystems.

Professional background

2012 -Professor, B.A.T. U.I.
2006-2012Assoc.Professor B.A.T. U.I.
2001–2006Assist. Professor B.A.T. U.I.
1985–2001Dept. Fisheries and Ichthyology Technological and Educational Institute of MessolongiI

Recent relevant publications/patents

1. Hanif, A., V. Bakopoulos, I. Leonardos, G.J. Dimitriadis 2005. The effect of sea bream (Sparus aurata) broodstock and larval vaccination on the susceptibility by Photobacterium damsela subsp. piscicida and on the humoral immune parameters. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 19: 345-361

2. Kagalou, I., D. Papadimitriou, V. Bakopoulos, and I. Leonardos. 2008. Cyanobacterial toxins in the water of a shallow eutrophic lake (Pamvotis Lake) and in the tissues of an omnivorous fish species (Carassius gibelio, Bloch) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: 137:185–195

3. Leonardos, I., I. Kagalou, M. Tsoumani and P.S. Economidis 2008. Fish fauna in a Greek lake: biodiversity, introduced fish species over a 80-year period and their impacts on the ecosystem .Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 17:165-173.

4. Papadimitriou D., I. Kagalou, V. Bakopoulos and I. Leonardos 2010. Accumulation of microcystins in water and fish tissues: An estimation of risks associated with microcystins in most of the Greek Lakes. Environmental Toxicology.25: (4) 418-427

5. Papadimitriou Th., E. Armeni , C. D. Stalikas, I. Kagalou and I. D. Leonardos 2011. Detection of microcystins in Pamvotis lake water and assessment of cyanobacterial bloom toxicity. Environ Monit Assess. DOI 10.1007/s10661-011-2169-5

6. Theodoti Papadimitriou, Ifigenia Kagalou, Ioannis D. Leonardos. 2012. Seasonally accumulation of microcystins in the various tissues of an endemic and protected fish species (Rutilus panosi) with different sizes. Clean Soil, Air and Water. , 40 (4), 402–407 DOI: 10.1002/clen.201000242

7. Kagalou I.,Ch. Anastasiadou, I.D. Leonardos and C. Neophytou. 2012. The DPSIR approach for an integrated river management framework. A preliminary application on a Mediterranean site (Kalamas River -NW Greece). Water Resources Management. Vol. 26 (6): 1677-1692, DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-9980-9

8. Papadimitriou Th.;I. Kagalou,;C. Stalikas, G. Pilidis;I. Leonardos 2012. Assessment of microcystin distribution and biomagnification in tissues of aquatic food web compartments from a shallow lake and evaluation of potential risks to public health. Ecotoxicology: Vol 21 ( 4):, 1155-1166

9. Cavraro F.,I. Daouti, I. Leonardos, P. Torricelli,and St. Malavasi. 2014. Linking habitat structure to life history strategy: Insights from a Mediterranean killifish. Journal of Sea Research 85 (2014) 205–213.

10. Tsoumani M., A. Georgiadis, I. A. Giantsis, I. Leonardos, A. P. Apostolidis 2014. Phylogenetic relationships of Greek Rutilus species inferred from cyt b sequence analysis: micro-geographic resolution and taxonomic implications . Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 54, pp. 172-178.

11. Ntakis, A., Liasko, R., Oikonomou, A., Leonardos, I.D Growth pattern of an endemic and endangered West Balkan Peninsula trout species (Salmo lourosensis, Delling, 2010) (2015) Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 31 (1), pp. 180-183

12. Gkagkavouzis K., Karaiskou N., Katopodi T., Leonardos I., Abatzopoulos T.J., Triantafyllidis A 2019,"The genetic population structure and temporal genetic stability of gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata populations in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, using microsatellite DNA markers,"Journal of Fish Biology",94, 606-613

13. Sapounidis A.S., Koutrakis E.T., Leonardos I.D 2019,"Fish-based River Integrity Index: A first attempt in developing a water quality index for the assessment of the Greek rivers” Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology",19, 620-628

14. Barbieri R., Stoumboudi M., Kalogianni E., Leonardos I.2020,"First report on the spawning migration and early life development of a cyprinid species of the genus Telestes. Journal of Applied Ichthyology” in press.

Number of publications, 82 ( Oct 2020) Number of citations: 1600 (Scopus Oct-2020)

H factor = 26 (Scopus Oct-2020)

https://www.scopus.com/cto2/main.uri?ctoId=CTODS_1248667415&authors=6603191536&origin=AuthorNamesList

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RHSyM3AAAAAJ&hl=el&oi=ao

Recent Research projects / grants (last 5 years)

1. JOINT ACTIONS AND NETWORKING FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND PROTECTION OF SURFACE WATERS (RIVER2RIVER) coordinator I.Leonardos, Interreg IPA Cross-order Cooperation Programme “Greece – Albania 2014-2020”,

2. Fish samplings in rivers of Epirus, West Greece, Peloponnesus and Central Greece.

3. INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO EXPLOITING THE FLESH AND SHELL OF THE BLUE CRAB (CALLINECTES SAPIDUS) coordinator I.Leonardos, Interreg IPA Cross-order Cooperation Programme “Greece – Albania 2014-2020”,

4. LIFE CYCLE, IMPACT AND MANAGEMENT OF INVASIVE SPECIES CALLINECTES SAPIDUS (BLUE CRAB), coordinator I.Leonardos.

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW FUNCTIONAL FISH-SUPERFOOD FOR MORE EFFICIENT FISH FARMING (Fish_Superfoods) coordinator I.Leonardos