Charis Galanakis

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Charis M. Galanakis
Χάρης Γαλανάκης
Patras University
Occupation(s)Author; educator; journal editor; and food, agricultural and environmental scientist

Charis M. Galanakis (Greek:Χάρης Γαλανάκης) is a Greek researcher, and food, agricultural and environmental scientist.[1][2]

Early life and education

Galanakis was born on April 3, 1981, in

Patras University-University of Ioannina-Ulster University. In 2010, he finished his doctoral degree at the Technical University of Crete.[4]

Career

Galanakis started as a Chemist-Oenologist in 2004 in a family-owned business—a laboratory in Chania, Greece. In 2009, Galanakis, along with Eva Tornberg, founded Phenoliv AB which developed a patented process of extracting

waste water used in olive oil while purifying the same waste water in the same extraction process.[5] The patent, however, was later abandoned due to unknown reasons.[6] In the same year, his first research publication—which highlighted the innovation for the use of dietary fiber suspensions from olive mill wastewater as potential fat replacements in meat products—attracted public interest.[7]

As an agricultural, environmental and food scientist, Galanakis' work is mainly focused on innovation and sustainability in the food industry, particularly more in the activity of "food waste recovery."[8][9] The same research aims to high added-value compounds from wasted by-products in different stages of food production, re-utilize them in the food chain, and make bigger impact in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—such as SDGs 2, 3, 6, 12, 13 and 15.[10] This concept of "food waste recovery" was greatly highlighted in the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic which had greatly affected—among others—various global food production chains, food safety, food security, and environmental impacts caused by unsustainable food production around the world.[10][11][12][13][14]

As an educator, he was a professor in King Saud University;[15] currently, he is now a honorary professor at Taif University in Saudi Arabia and a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa while also serving as a research and innovation director at Galanakis Laboratories in Greece.[10][16][1] Aside from being an educator and a multidisciplinary scientist, he had also authored numerous books in his fields of expertise;[3] he is also the founder and the director of Food Waste Recovery Group (SIG5) of ISEKI Food Association in Vienna, Austria;[17][18][19] and the editor-in-chief of Discover Food [20] and Discover Environment[21] journals.

Recognitions

In 2019, 2021-2023, Galanakis was recognized as a "Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Agricultural Sciences" by Clarivate's Web of Science.[1][22][23] From 2019 until 2023, he has also been consistently named and included in the list of the "World's Top 2% Scientists" by Stanford University.[24][25][26][27][28][2]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b "Charis M. Galanakis' Web of Science profile". Publons. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  2. ^ "M. Galanakis - Editorial Board - Trends in Food Science & Technology - Journal". Elsevier. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "About Charis M. Galanakis". Amazon. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  4. ^ "CHARIS M. GALANAKIS". ORCID. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  5. ISSN 0260-8774 – via Elsevier
    .
  6. ^ "Olive waste recovery". Google Patents. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  7. ^ Daniells, Stephen (September 17, 2009). "Olive fibre may replace fat in meat products". Food Navigator. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  8. ^ Gray, Nathan (May 3, 2012). "Food waste has big potential for value-added ingredients". Food Navigator. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  9. ISSN 0924-2244
    .
  10. ^ a b c "Climate change and food production: Adapt to the new era". Springer Nature. September 6, 2021. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  11. PMC 7499675
    .
  12. ISSN 2571-581X
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  13. PMC 8674857
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  14. ^ McCarthy, Simone (June 22, 2020). "Food-related Covid-19 outbreaks raise flags about supply security". South China Morning Post. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  15. ^ Wilkinson, Joanna (November 3, 2020). "Here's what Highly Cited Researchers look for in PhD students". Clarivate. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
  16. ^ "About us | Εργαστήρια Γαλανάκης". Galanakis Laboratories. June 1, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  17. ISBN 9780128153574
    . Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  18. ^ "About Us". Food Waste Recovery. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  19. ^ "LAUNCHING OF FOOD WASTE RECOVERY WEBSITE" (PDF). ISEKI Food Association Newsletter. No. 22. June 2017. p. 6.
  20. ^ "Discover Food". Springer. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  21. ^ "Discover Environment". Springer. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  22. ^ "Παγκόσμια διάκριση Χανιώτη πανεπιστημιακού - Χανιώτικα Νέα". "Χανιώτικα Νέα (in Greek). November 20, 2019. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  23. ^ "Highly Cited Researchers". Clarivate. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  24. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.1
    . Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  25. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.2
    . Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  26. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.3
    . Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  27. ^ Team, ECEBM (October 26, 2021). "STANFORD UNIVERSITY NAMES WORLD'S TOP 2% SCIENTISTS, 2021". ECEBM. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  28. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.4. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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