Prof. Savvas N. Georgiades is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cyprus. His expertise spans the areas of Organic Synthesis and Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. He has obtained his PhD in Chemistry (2006) from Harvard University (with Prof. Jon Clardy), while he has held postdoctoral appointments at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (2006–2007, with Prof. Phil Baran) and Imperial College London (2007–2010, with Prof. Ramon Vilar). Dr Georgiades was the “New Blood Lecturer in Pharmacy and Chemistry” at Kingston University, UK (2010–2011), before joining the faculty of the University of Cyprus in 2011. He has established and currently leads the Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology Research Laboratory at UCY and supervises several PhD and MSc students, while in parallel he is actively engaged in the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. His current research focuses on: (a) Development of new all-organic oligoaryl or metal-based G-quadruplex nucleic acid-targeted ligands as a basis for new anti-cancer treatments and bio-imaging agents; (b) Synthesis, via short innovative routes, of small-molecule modulators of cellular signaling pathways; (c) Development and application of novel synthetic methodologies, especially metal-mediated, for C-H bond activation to form C-C or C-X (X=heteroatom) bonds.
Prof. Ioannis Pashalidis received his Ph.D. in Aquatic Radiochemistry from the Institut fur Radiochemie, T. U. Munchen, Germany in 1991. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cyprus (2003–2016). In 2016, he was promoted to Professor. His research topics mainly include Adsorption, Biochar, Radon Measurement, Uranium, Radon, Aquatic Chemistry, radiochemistry, Biochar production and uranium adsorption, and Alpha Spectroscopy.
