Kambouris

Manousos Kambouris: Born in Athens, Greece received a BSc in Biology in 1993, while working as a free-lance analyst for commercial defense-oriented publications. He served 23 months tour of duty (Special Forces/ Hellenic Army, 1993-5) and received PhD in Medical Molecular Mycology in 2000. Had a 23- month stay for Post-Doc research in the USA on human genomics and returned to Greece for the 2004 Olympics, whence he served as a Security Division consultant regarding chem/bio risks, residues and threats (2003-4). Since he engaged in publishing and teaching, both in defense-sponsored institutions (2009-13) and in five different universities. In mid-2010 he was for 2 years pro bono advisor to the Commanding Officer of the Joint NBC intervention company of the Greek General Staff. Since 2018 he leads the Special Projects of the LaPIT in the Dept of Pharmacy, Patras University, tackling Electromicrobiology, Culturomics, Biosecurity and expedient field-implementable, Point-of-Need molecular diagnostics. He has authored/edited three volumes on Microbiology and Biosecurity and five in Ancient Greek Warfare between 2020 and 2023.