Thanassis has a PhD in Evolutionary Genomics from the University of Copenhagen. His work is focused on applying genomics and transcriptomics to understand the evolution of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms as well as the interactions between them in various environments, including the rhizosphere. His work in INTERACT will primarily be on optimizing the TotalRNA extraction approach from the rhizosphere in order to detect microbial markers (full rRNA and amplicon) and metabolic pathways co-occurring with superior plant growth. Thanassis is also part of the team that operates and maintains the Sequencing Center, led by Lea Ellegaard-Jensen, and the High Performance Computing Clusters at the Department of Environmental Science in Roskilde.

Place of employment: Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Science - Environmental Microbiology and Circular Resource Flow