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Dora Chimonidou - Director
Marinos Markou - Chief Agricultural Research Officer (Support Division)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403119
Email: mmarkou@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Agricultural Economics
- Agricultural Policy
- Rural Development
- Production Economics
- Marketing of agricultural products
- Farm Accountancy Data Network
- Foresight
Adamides George - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Rural Development)
Christou Anastasis - Agricultural Research Officer A΄ (Natural Resources and Environment)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403113
Email: achristou@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Cellular and molecular responses of strawberry to salt, osmotic and heat stress
- Priming approaches for enhancing plant abiotic stress resistance
- Impacts and risk assessment of wastewater reuse for irrigation in the environment and public health
- Fate and plant uptake of micro-pollutants and compounds of emerging concern (CECs)
- Phytoremetiation as a tool for retrieving marginal and polluted soils
Dalias Panagiotis - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Natural Resources and Environment)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403114
Email: pdalias@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Decomposition processes of litter and soil organic matter
- Dynamics of mineralization of soil carbon and nitrogen
- Utilization of organic materials (manure, compost, sewage sludge) for soil fertility improvement
Emmanouelidou Maria - Agricultural Research Officer (Fruit Trees)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403214
Email: memmanouilidou@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Olive culture, Citrus culture
- Evaluation and conservation of olive genetic resources
- Elaiographic description, cultivar characterization and identification of olive genetic material
- Evaluation of olive and citrus varieties in the agri-environmental conditions of Cyprus
- Quality characteristics and characterization of olive oil
- Organoleptic assessment of extra virgin olive oil
Fasoula Dionysia - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Plant Improvement)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403124
Email: dfasoula@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Plant Breeding and Genetics-Molecular Genetics
- Prognostic Breeding– Innovative Methodology of Plant Breeding for cultivar development, exploitation of epigenetic phenomena, mitigation of biotic and abiotic stressors/Climate Change
- Plant Breeding for Organic and Low-Input Agriculture – Participatory Approaches- Traditional varieties
- Epigenetic phenomena in Plant Breeding-Epigenomics
- Systems Biology
- Precision Agriculture
Giannakopoulou Marianthi - Agricultural Research Officer (Rural Development)
Hadjipavlou Georgia - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Animal Production)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403122
Email: ghadjipavlou@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Dissecting genetic components, quantitative trait loci and polymorphisms affecting production and reproduction traits in local livestock populations
- Genetic study of disease resistance in small ruminants
- Genetic evaluation and selection of sheep and goat breeds
- Use of novel approaches for genomic evaluation of sheep and goats
- Conservation and sustainable use of farm animal genetic resources
Ioannides Ioannis - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Agrobiotechnology)
Ioannidou Sotiroula - Agricultural Research Officer (Fruit Trees)
Ioannou Stavroula - Agricultural Research Officer (Rural Development)
Kapari-Isaia Theodora - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Plant Protection)
Kyratzis Angelos - Agricultural Research Officer A΄ (Vegetables)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403131
Email: akyratzis@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Survey, inventory, collection, ex situ conservation, characterization and evaluation of local plant genetic resources
- Characterization and evaluation of local cereal, legume and vegetable landraces
- Survey, inventory and conservation of crop wild relatives
- Development of germination protocols for native rare plant species
- Curation of the national Genebank and Herbarium
Kyriacou Marios - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Vegetables)
Mina Kyriacos - Agricultural Research Officer (Cultivar Registration Center)
Neocleous Damianos - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Natural Resources and Environment)
Omirou Michalis - Agricultural Research Officer A΄ (Agrobiotechnology)
Pallides Andreas - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Plant Improvement)
Papadavid George - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Rural Development)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403118
Email: gpapadavid@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Agricultural Economics
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Environment
Papayiannis Lambros - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Plant Protection)
Pitta Christina - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Plant Improvement)
Savvides Savvas - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Fruit Trees)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403220
Email: ssavvides@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Evaluation of tablegrape varieties under different environmental conditions.
- Evaluation of the tablegrape and wine grape varieties grafted on rootstocks under different environmental conditions.
- Use of cultural practices for the improvement of quality and production of grapes.
- Management, collection and conservation of vine genetic material of autochthonous and international wine and tablegrape varieties and wild vines.
- Ampelographic description of autochthonous wine and tablegrape varieties.
Seraphides Nicos - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Plant Protection)
Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403206
Email: nseraphides@ari.moa.gov.cy
Research Interests
- Biology, ecology, behavior and integrated pest management of insect pests
- Rearing of beneficial insects (Macrolophus pygmaeus, Nesidiocoris tenuis, Chrysoperla carnea, Diglyphus isaea, Aphytis melinus, Comperiella bifasciata)
- Insecticide toxicity and Resistance
Soteriou Georgios - Agricultural Research Officer A΄ (Vegetables)
Sparaggis Dionysis - Agricultural Research Officer (Animal Production)
Stavridou Constantina - Agricultural Research Officer (Plant Improvement)
Stylianou Andreas - Agricultural Research Officer (Rural Development)
Vassiliou Loukia - Agricultural Research Officer (Natural Resources and Environment)
Vassiliou Vassilis - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Animal Production)