Konstantinos Kesanopoulos, MSc, PhD, is a biologist specialising in cell biology, physiology and microbiology, having graduated from the University of Toulouse, France. He completed his doctoral thesis at the Medical School of the University of Ioannina in 2009 and obtained a master’s degree in public health at the National School of Public Health in Greece in 2011. From 2001 to 2019, he worked as a biologist at the National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, where he contributed to the development and application of molecular biology and molecular epidemiology diagnostic techniques for the protection of public health from infectious diseases.
Since 2014, he has been the Quality Management Officer for molecular diagnostic tests at the accredited reference laboratory. He has been involved in European and national projects, playing an active role in the development of novel molecular diagnostic techniques for the identification, standardisation and epidemiological surveillance of infectious micro-organisms, as well as in studies evaluating the efficacy of new vaccines.
Since 2020, Konstantinos has been a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Public and Community Health of the School of Public Health of the University of West Attica, and he participates in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
As a member of the Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology, he is actively involved in research on the study of smoking behaviour, the development of new health technologies and the development of Internet-Based Surveillance (IBS) systems based on infodemiology to enable the monitoring of social media users’ beliefs and opinions on public health issues such as smoking and new vaccines.