CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Data

First Name: Zisis

Last Name: Vryzas G.

Title Dr.

Places of home: New Helvetia, PO Box 15 68200 Orestiada

Place of birth: Eleftheroupoli, Greece

Date of birth: 25 August 1972

Family status: Married

Nationality: Greek

Telephone No: +302552041120, +306944834990

e-mail: zvryzas@agro.duth.gr

Studies

2000-2005 PhD. student and scientific collaborator at the Pesticide Science Laboratory Department of Plant Protection of the School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Ph.D. thesis “Fate of the herbicides atrazine, metolachlor and their metabolites in the soil”.

1998-2000 MSc. in plant protection skilled work in pesticide residue analysis. Thesis “Analysis of dithiocarbamate fungicide residues in dry tobacco and peaches”.

1992-1997 BSc. in plant protection (5-year Degree) at the “School of Agriculture, Aristotle University” in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Research Experience

2007-2008 Postdoc fellow honoured by the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece, at the Pesticide Science Laboratory Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in the group of Prof. E. Papadopoulou-Mourkidou.

2005-2006: Assistant researcher at the Pesticide Science Laboratory of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in the following research projects.

(1) Assistance of the existent substructure of the pesticide science laboratory of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for the analysis of pesticide residues in tobacco. E.P. Competitiveness, Module 1.2, Action 1.2.2, Funded by European Community (65%) and Greek Ministry (35%)

(2) Upgrade of the equipment of the pesticide science laboratory. Project AKMON 3^rd EU framework Funded by European Community (65%) and Greek Ministry (35%)

(3) Development of ISO 9001 (2000) and ISO 17:025:2005 quality systems in the pesticide science laboratory (technical manager, and author of 42 working guidance).

2003-2005 Assistant researcher in the following research project “Analysis of pesticide residues in agricultural products”. Funded by Greek companies.

2002-2003 Assistant researcher in the following research project “Continuation of the monitoring of pesticide residues in ground and surface waters of the Macedonia-Thrace corn-cultivated area” Funded by Novartis Crop Protection AG, Basel Switzerland.

2000-2002 Assistant researcher in the following research project “Strategies to accelerate the productive biodegradation of several herbicides under environmental stress conditions” Funded by EU-Project QLK3-1999-00041.

Teaching Experience

2003-2009 2005- 2007 2007- 2008 2005 2009-2010

Scientific co-operator in the Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki Dept. of Plant Production and Agronomics, Subject: Pesticide Science Contract Assistant Professor teaching Introduction in Agricultural Pharmacology in the Democritus University of Trace, Department of Plant Protection and Environment Contract Assistant Professor teaching Instrumental Analysis in the Democritus University of Trace, Department of Food Technology Seminars on Pesticide Residue Department of Plant Protection, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki presented as part of the postgraduate program of sustainable agriculture. Lecturer in Crop Protection & Agroecosystems Pollution Undergraduate cources: Agricultural pharmacology, Ecological risk assessment, Ecotoxicology.

Research Interests

• Laboratory and field-based studies monitoring the environmental fate (dissipation, leaching, preferential flow, run-off, spray drift) of pesticides in soil, air and water
• Pesticide residues analysis in food, soil, water, tobacco, plant materials
• Instrumental analysis (GC-ECD/FPD/NPD/HALL/FID, HPLC-UV/PDA/Fluorescence/ Conductivity, GC-ITMS, GC-MS/MS, LC-MS/MS)
• The evaluation of biobeds for minimizing point-source contamination by pesticides.
• Development and validation of analytical methods
• Analysis of Ecological quality of water, BOD, COD, SAR, Ions,

Metals, phenols, and other physicochemical properties of water

§ Development of ISO 9001 (2000) and ISO 17025:2005 quality systems in pesticide residue analysis

Participation and presentations in International Symposiums & Workshops

1. International Symposium 99, Pesticides in Food in Mediterranean Countries Galiari, Italy, 1999. Presentation: Microwave-Assisted Simultaneous Extraction and Acid Digestion of Dithiocarbamates for Trace Residue Analysis in Dry Tobacco. Vryzas Z., Papadakis E. N. S., and Papadopoulou-Mourkidou.
2. First Mediterranean Workshop, Research and European Policy on Pesticide Residues in Mediterranean Countries Athens, Greece 2000. Presentation: Pesticide residues in peaches. Papadopoulou-Mourkidou E., Vryzas Z., Papadopoulos N., Papadakis E. N. S., Koukourikou A.
3. 2nd European Conference on Pesticides and Related Organic Micropollutants in the Enviroment Corfu, Greece 2002. Applications of microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) followed by liquid or gas chromatographic analysis of extracts for monitoring pesticide residues in soil and plant matrices. Euphemia Papadopoulou-Mourkidou, Emmanuil N. Papadakis, Zisis Vryzas, John Patsias and George Fragoulis (University of Thessaloniki, Greece), KEY NOTE
4. 10th IUPAC International Congress on the Chemistry of Crop Protection Basel, Switzerlant 2002. Presentation: Investigation of the Causes for Local Contamination of Groundwater with Maize Herbicide and Proposal of Possible Remediation Measures “Case Study” in Northern Greece. Vryzas Z., Papadakis E. N. S., Fragoulis G., and Papadopoulou-Mourkidou E.
5. 14th SETAC annual meeting (Environmental Science Solutions: A pan-European Perspective) Prague, Czech 2004. Presentation: Determination of Chloroacetanilide Herbicides Alachlor, Metolachlor and its metabolites in Soils by Microwave-Assisted Extraction (MAE) Combined to Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) Coupled with GC-MS and HPLC Analysis. Vryzas Ζ., Ageliki Tsiaboula and Euphemia Papadopoulou- Mourkidou.
6. 4th International Symposium on environmental aspects of pesticide microbiology (Pesticide, soil microbiology, microbial functions and diversity) Thessaloniki, Greece 2004. Presentation: Dissipation of atrazine and metolachlor in soils of the vadoze in a corn growing area of Greece. Zisis Vryzas, Katerina Oriakli, Emmanuil Papadakis and Euphemia Papadopoulou-Mourkidou (Oral Presentation).
7. Preferential flow and transport processes in soil November 4-9, 2006 Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità Ascona, Switzerland. Presentation: Four year suction cup data concerning the preferential flow of bromide, brilliant blue and corn applied herbicides with their metabolites, in clayey vadoze zone: a field scale experiment in north-east Greece. Zisis Vryzas & Euphemia Papadopoulou-Mourkidou.
8. Diffuse Inputs into the Groundwater: Monitoring-Modelling-Management January 29-31, 2007 Graz, Austria. Presentation: Preferential flow paths as visualized by brilliant blue FCF tracers in a clayey vadoze zone. Zisis Vryzas & Euphemia Papadopoulou-Mourkidou.

Refereed Publications

1. Zioziou E., Nikolaou N., Vryzas Z., (1999). Plant Growth Regulators Applications on Sultanine Variety, for Table Grape Production. Le Progrès Agricole et Viticole 10, 228-235.

2. Vryzas Z., Papadakis N. E., and Papadopoulou-Mourkidou E., (2002) Microwave-Assisted Extraction (MAE)-Acid Hydrolysis of Dithiocarbamates for Trace Analysis in Tobacco and Peaches. J.Agric. Food Chem. 50, 2220-2226.

3. Vryzas Z., and Papadopoulou-Mourkidou E., (2002) Determination of Triazine and Chloroacetanilide Herbicides in Soils by Microwave-Assisted Extraction (MAE) Coupled to Gas Chromatographic Analysis with Either GC-NPD or GC-MS. J.Agric.Food Chem.50, 5026-5033.

4. Papadopoulou-Mourkidou, E, Papadakis, N.E., Vryzas Z. (2005) Application of microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) for the analysis of dithiocarbamates in food matricies. In Methods in Biotechnology, Pesticide protocols Chapter XIII (Ed) Martinez-Vidal, J.L., Frenich, A.C. Humana Press Totawa, New Jersey.

5. Emmanouil N. Papadakis, Z. Vryzas and Euphemia Papadopoulou-Mourkidou (2006) Rapid method for the determination of 16 organochlorine pesticides in sesame seeds by microwave-assisted extraction and analysis of extracts by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry Journal of Chromatography A, Volume 1127, Issues 1-2, , 6-11.

6. Vryzas Z., E. PAPADOPOULOU-MOURKIDOU, G. SOULIOS & K. PRODROMOU (2007) Kinetics and adsorption of metolachlor and atrazine and the conversion products (deethylatrazine, deisopropylatrazine, hydroxyatrazine) in the soil profile of a river basin. European Journal of Soil Science, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2007.00913.

7. Vryzas Z., Tsaboula, A., Papadopoulou-Mourkidou, E. (2007) Determination of alachlor, metolachlor and their acidic metabolites in soils by Microwave-Assisted Extraction (MAE) combined with Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) coupled with GC-MS and HPLC-UV analysis. Journal of Separation Science (accepted).

8. Andreadis, S.S., Vryzas, Z., Papadopoulou-Mourkidou, E., Savopoulou-Soultani, M. (2008) Age-dependent changes in tolerance to cold and accumulation of cryoprotectants in overwintering and non-overwintering larvae of European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis. Physiological Entomology 33 (4), pp. 365-371.

9. Vryzas, Z., Vassiliou, G., Alexoudis, C., Papadopoulou-Mourkidou, E. (2009) Spatial and temporal distribution of pesticide residues in surface waters in northeastern Greece Water Research 43, 1-10.

10. Vryzas, Z., C. Alexoudis, G. Vassiliou, K. Galanis and E. Papadopoulou-Mourkidou (2010). Determination and aquatic risk assessment of pesticide residues in riparian drainage canals in northeastern Greece. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (in Press, doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2010.04.011)