Kostas T. Konstantinidis
Carlton S. Wilder Junior Faculty Professorship & Associate Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia
USA
Biography
Kostas Konstantinidis has joined the Faculty at Georgia Tech in November 2007 and he is holding the Carlton S. Wilder Junior Professorship in Environmental Engineering since September 2012. He has earned his BS (1999) in Agriculture Sciences from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and his PhD (2004) from the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, where he was a Bouyoukos Fellow. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research Interest
Environmental microbiology and genomics Computational approaches for studying the ecology and evolution of microorganisms Development of genomic and proteomic techniques to investigate and quantify in-situ important microbial-mediated processes Population and single-cell genomics Assessing the extent and value of biodiversity within natural assemblages of Bacteria and Archaea Biotechnological applications of microbial functional diversity Environmental relevance of microbial diseases