Dr George Pantelidis entered the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Agriculture in 1995 and graduated in 2000 after majoring in the field of ‘Horticulture’. In 2002 he entered the Msc for Horticultural Science of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Agriculture and graduated in 2004. At the same time he was awarded a 3.5 year competitive scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation to pursue Ph.D. studies and continued his post-graduate studies at the School of Agriculture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he was awarded his Ph.D. of philosophy of the Faculty of the Department of Agriculture of Geotechnical Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2011.

Since January 2018, he is a researcher at the Department of Deciduous Fruit Trees, Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organisation Demeter.

• Stone fruit cultivar evaluation.
• Postharvest physiology.
• Effects of horticultural practices on stone fruit yield and quality.
• Utilization of plant genetic resources.
• Impact of climate change on the production of fruit trees.
• Chilling requirements evaluation of fruit trees.

• 06/11/2024 -20/11/2025: Developing omics-driven tools for molecular breeding of cold-storage tolerant peach cultivars- DeCOLD_Peach (Greece 2.0 / Basic Research Financing Action).
• 01/01/2024- 31/12/2028: Exploiting the Untapped potential of Fruit tree Wild DIVersity for Sustainable Agriculture – FRUITDIV (HORIZON EUROPE).
• 13/03/2023- 31/12/2025 : Support for the upgrade of the operation of the National Network for Climate Change CLIMPACT.
• 26/9/2023- 26/9/2027: Assessing the risk of maladaptation to climate change in temperate and Mediterranean fruit trees- FRUITRESCUE.

Drogoudi P., Pantelidis G., Karapetsi L., Ziakou K., Kazantzis K., Madesis P., Thomidis T. 2023. Exploring the Genetic and Morphological Variation and Disease Resistance in Local and Foreign Prunus persica (L.) Batsch Cultivars. Agriculture (Switzerland), 13 (4), art. no. 800.

Drogoudi P., Pantelidis G.E. 2022. Selection and screening of fruit phenotypic characters of Greek local and foreign pomegranate germplasm. European Journal of Horticul-tural Science, 87 (6), pp. 1 – 10.

Pantelidis G., Drogoudi P. 2023. Exploitation of genotypic variation in chilling and heat requirements for flowering in Prunus armeniaca and Prunus persica (L.) Batsch cultivars. Scientia Horticulturae, 321, art. no. 112287.

Drogoudi P., Pantelidis G., Thomidis T. 2023. Impact of Ozonated Water on Brown Rot Development and Storage Potential of Nectarine and Plum. Ozone: Science and Engineering, 45 (4), pp. 410 – 418.

Drogoudi P., Cantín C.M., Brandi F., Butcaru A., Cos-Terrer J., Cutuli M., Foschi S., Galindo A., García-Brunton J., Luedeling E., Moreno M.A., Nari D., Pantelidis G., Reig G., Roera V., Ruesch J., Stanica F., Giovannini D. 2023. Impact of Chill and Heat Exposures under Diverse Climatic Conditions on Peach and Nectarine Flowering Phenology. Plants, 12 (3), art. no. 584.

Drogoudi P., Pantelidis G.E. 2022. Impact of genetic and climatic parameters on split-pit incidence in peach and nectarine. Scientia Horticulturae, 297, art. no. 110970.

Drogoudi P., Pantelidis G. 2022. Phenotypic Variation and Peel Contribution to Fruit Antioxidant Contents in European and Japanese Plums. Plants, 11 (10), art. no. 1338.

Drogoudi P., Pantelidis G.E. 2022. Comparative effects of gibberellin A3, glycine betaine, and Si, Ca, and K fertilizers on physiological disorders and yield of pomegranate cv. Wonderful. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 102 (1), pp. 259 – 267.