Researcher in Vegetable Production at the Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources- ELGO-DEMETER. Dr. Ntatsi was awarded a Diploma in Agriculture from the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), an MSc Diploma from the University of Ioannina and a Ph.D. degree from the Laboratory of Vegetable Production, Agricultural University of Athens (AUA). Since the beginning of 2014 until the end of 2017 she was Post-Doctorate Researcher at the Laboratory of Vegetable Production of AUA and is specialized on hydroponics, vegetable grafting, greenhouse environment and its impact on vegetable production and quality, greenhouse gas emissions, biological nitrogen fixation. She has extensive experience in determination of inorganic nutrients in plant tissues and soil samples and quality parameters, greenhouse gases, biological nitrogen fixation, antioxidant parameters of vegetables, molecular biology techniques and bioinformatics tools. He teaching experience is includes lectures in Universities and Technological Institutes. She has published 39 papers in refereed international scientific journals, 19 in congress proceedings (Acta Hort.), 2 as book chapters and more than 60 as abstracts in national and international conferences. She is reviewer in many scientific journals and member of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) and the Greek Society for Horticultural Science (EEEO). In the last 5 years, in addition to several national research projects, Dr. Ntatsi has been involved as researcher and Project Manager in European research projects (LEGUME FUTURES, EUROLEGUME) as well as in one LEONARDO Project related to plant irrigation and hydroponics (AGRICOM) and was MC Member and Editorial Coordinator of the FA1204 COST Action. Since 2017 she is participating in two HORIZON2020 research projects, particularly TRUE as WP Leader and Project Manager on behalf of the AUA team and TOMRES as Project Manager on behalf of the AUA team.

• nutrition needs of the main vegetables under greenhouse hydroponic production
• nutrition needs of the open field vegetable crops
• equipment of hydroponic crops
• nutrient solutions recipes for crops of tomatoes, cucumber and peppers cultivated in closed hydroponic systems.
• evaluation of domestic volcanic materials (e.g., pumice) as substrates for hydroponic vegetable crops
• irrigation of hydroponic vegetable crops
• quality characteristics of vegetables
• nutritional value of vegetables
• post-harvest physiology of vegetables
• physiology of salinity, low / high temperatures, drought, atmospheric ozone, nitrogen, heavy metals and nutrients (Ca, Mn, Zn etc) stress of vegetable crops
• vegetable grafting to ameliorate abiotic stress
• metabolism of vegetables under abiotic stress conditions (metabolomics)
• evaluation of local varieties of vegetables to develop new varieties for human and animal nutrition as well as their further use in genetic breeding programs
• organic farming of vegetable crops
• use of biostimulants (promoting growth rhizobacteria) and micro-organisms (bacillus, trichoderma) in vegetable crops to confer biotic and abiotic stress
• classification of different Rhizobium strains with the aim of increasing biological N₂-fixation ability in the agricultural ecosystems and establishment of new commercial inoculants
• biological N₂-fixation of legume vegetable
• greenhouse gas emissions

• Member of the research team of the Agricultural University of Athens in an H2020 project. Project acronym: TRUE. Project full title: «Transition paths to sustainable legume-based systems in Europe». Grant agreement no: 727973. Co-ordinator: Prof. Dimitrios Savvas
• Member of the research team of the Agricultural University of Athens in an H2020 project. Project acronym: TOMRES. Project full title: «A novel and integrated approach to increase multiple and combined stress tolerance in plants using tomato as a model». Grant agreement no: 727929. Co-ordinator: Prof. Dimitrios Savvas

1. Ntatsi, G., Karkanis, A., Yfantopoulos, D., Olle, M., Travlos, I., Thanopoulos, R., Bilalis, D., Bebeli, P., Savvas, D., 2018. Impact of variety and farming practices on growth, yield, weed flora and symbiotic nitrogen fixation in faba bean cultivated for fresh seed production. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B: Soil and Plant Science, 68:7, 619-630
2. Ntatsi, G., Gutiérrez-Cortines, M.E., Karapanos, I., Barros, A., Weiss, J., Balliu, A., Rosa, E.A.D.S., Savvas, D., 2018. The quality of leguminous vegetables as influenced by preharvest factors. Scientia Horticulturae, 232, 191-205
3. Ntatsi, G., Savvas, D., Papasotiropoulos, V., Katsileros, A., Zrenner, R.M., Hincha, D.K., Zuther, E., Schwarz, D., 2017. Rootstock sub-optimal temperature tolerance determines transcriptomic responses after long-term root cooling in rootstocks and scions of grafted tomato plants. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, art. no. 911.
4. Ntatsi, G., Aliferis, K.A., Rouphael, Y., Napolitano, F., Makris, K., Kalala, G., Katopodis, G., Savvas, D., 2017. Salinity source alters mineral composition and metabolism of Cichorium spinosum. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 141, 113-123.
5. Ntatsi, G., Savvas, D., Huntenburg, K., Druege, U., Hincha, D.K., Zuther, E., Schwarz, D., 2014. A study on ABA involvement in the response of tomato to suboptimal root temperature using reciprocal grafts with notabilis, a null mutant in the ABA-biosynthesis gene LeNCED1. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 97, 11-21