Dr Paschalina Chatzopoulou, BSc in Pharmacy (University of Patras), holds a PhD from the School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -AUTh – (1992), in the field Technology and Processing of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and analysis of bioactive compounds. In her PhD thesis she has studied the effect of processing parameters on the quality of Medicinal plants and essential oils and furthermore modern techniques for the isolation and characterization of volatile extracts. She was also involved in studies aiming at the development of ‘green technologies’ (Super Critical Fluid Extraction) in the extraction of   natural products. During her PhD studies she granted the scholarship of Post graduate student from AUTh, and was involved as Graduate Teaching assistant in the Lab of Pharmaceutical Technology. She has been visiting fellow in the Center of Bio-Pharmaceutical Science, Gorlaeus Laboratoria, University of Leiden, the Department of Applied Technological Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Delft, The Netherlands (1989), and post-doctoral researcher in School of Pharmacy, AUTh (1992-1994). She worked as Clinical Trial Manager in the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk S.A, Athens (1994-1997).  She has been appointed as junior researcher by the National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF), Agricultural Research Center of North Greece, Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (1997).  Currently she is senior researcher at the Hellenic Agricultural Organization  DEMETER (former NAGREF), Institute of Breeding and Plant Genetic Resources, Research Unit Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.

• Evaluation of agrotechnological parameters on cultivated medicinal and aromatic Plants (MAPs)
• Evaluation of breeding research towards improved marker compounds in MAPs
• Processing and extraction of secondary metabolites by conventional and green technologies
• MAPs metabolite profiling: essential oils, volatiles, antioxidants, phenolics
• Evaluation of MAPs genetic resources for breeding purposes.

• She has been involved in several national, bilateral and E.U Joint Research Programs and she is co-author in more than 45 research publications in internationally referred Journals (h-index 18).
• She is National Representative of Greece at the European Cooperative Program for Plant Genetic Resources – (ECPGR) –Medicinal and Aromatic Plants WG, member of the Committee of Codex Alimentarius –WG “Codex Committee on Spices and Culinary Herbs, CCSCH, and member of national Committees on MAPs.
• «Social Agribusiness and Farmworkers Cooperatives – AGRIFARM», Interreg Greece -Italy, 2019-2021
• “Study of native to Pindos Primula sp. aiming at introduction into cultivation” (2019-2021), founded by Region of Epirus
•  “Conservation and sustainable exploitation of indigenous Medicinal and Aromatic plants traditionally used in the SEE, WB countries. A model approach for Sideritis spp. (Mountain tea)” SEE-ERA.NET Plus Joint Call – Thematic Area FP7 Agrofood (2011-2013)
• “Conservation and characterization of Oregano (Origanum vulgare L.) wild populations in Europe” European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) – Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Working Group (2010-2011)

• Martina Grdisa, Ivan Radosavljevic, Zlatko Liber, Gjoshe Stefkov, Parthenopi Ralli, Paschalina Chatzopoulou, Klaudija Carovic-Stanko, Zlatko Satovic. 2019. Divergent selection and genetic structure of Sideritis scardica populations from southern Balkan Penisula as revealed by AFLP fingerprinting, Scientific Reports, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49097-x
• Tsivelika N., Sarrou E., Gusheva K., Pankou C., Koutsos T., Chatzopoulou P., Mavromatis A. 2018. Phenotypic variation of wild Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.) populations and their evaluation for medicinally important essential oil, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 80, 21-28
• Eirini Sarrou, Nektaria Tsivelika, Paschalina Chatzopoulou, George Tsakalidis, Georgios Menexes, Athanasios Mavromatis. 2017. Conventional breeding of Greek Οregano (Origanum vulgare hirtum) and development of improved cultivars for yield potential and essential oil quality. Euphytica, 213:104, DOI 10.1007/s10681-017-1889-1
• Eirini Sarrou, Ioannis Ganopoulos, Aliki Xanthopoulou, Domenico Masuero, Stefan Martens, Panagiotis Madesis, Athanasios Mavromatis, Paschalina Chatzopoulou. 2017. Genetic diversity and metabolic profile of Salvia officinalis populations: implications for breeding, PLANTA, DOI10.1007/s00425-017-2666-z
• Adriana Skendi, Maria Irakli, Paschalina Chatzopoulou. 2017. Analysis of phenolic compounds in Greek plants of Lamiaceae family by HPLC, J of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, 6, 62-69.