For 14 years he was the director of the Α΄ Microbiology laboratory of the same School and Head of the “WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Arbovirus and Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses”[1] which he himself created in 1996.
The outcome of his research was the laboratory diagnosis of several “new” diseases in Greece and in Europe leading to a rapid public health response during outbreaks, epidemics and /or pandemics.
In the context of this research he has worked in the Democracy of Central Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, and China, he has been invited to give lectures by various International ResearchInstitutes and Universities and he was a member of the Reviewers Group for the establishment of a Global Electronic Reporting System of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Toxins (ProMed) organized by the Federation of American Scientists(FAS).
Since 1992 he is the National Expert at the UN, Geneva, for the Biological Weapons Convention[3] and the Ad hoc meetings of experts (Treaty for the Destruction of the Biological and Toxin Weapons), National representative for the Poliovirus Containment of the WHO Poliovirus Global Eradication Program[4] and during Athens 2004 Olympic Games he was coordinator of the Laboratory Network against bioterrorism actions.
He has published more than 100 original scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals and has coordinated several research projects funded by EU, United States, WHO, NATO and Greece.