Plant & Environmental
Biotechnology Laboratory

Sotirios Vasileiadis

Assistant Professor in Microbial Molecular-Ecology

Sotirios Vasileiadis is an Assistant Professor at the Lab of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology (LPEB) of Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology (DBB), University of Thessaly (UTH). He has expertise on the fields of Microbial Ecology, Molecular Microbial Ecology and associated Bioinformatics/Statistics. He was awarded his University Diploma in Agricultural sciences by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, his MSc by the University of Wageningen and his PhD in Soil Microbial Ecology from Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCattSC), Italy. During his PhD and first postDoc at UCattSC he developed methods for the study of phylogenetic marker gene diversity with multiplexed high throughput sequencing, and built his skills on associated bioinformatics/biostatistics and microbial genomics/metagenomics. Following, he performed a second postdoc at the University of South Australia (Mawson Lakes, Adelaide) working on the metal and antibiotic stress on environmental microbiota. He then joined the LPEB working as a Marie Curie fellow through a MSCA Individual Fellowship (EMIGRATE) using advanced omics and bioinformatics tools to study microbial ecotoxicology, and metagenome mining for novel pollutant biodegrading enzymes. He has been an IF-MSCA-H2020 Fellow (150K€), coordinate(d)s HFRI projects (170K€), and participate(d)s/partner(ed)s in several other EU and international Australian projects (South Australian PRIF Industry Linkage Research Grant 900K AUD, Australian Synchrotron Access Grant 30K AUD, DN HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01-01 “PharmERA” 2.6M€, WIDENING HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03-01 “ACTIONr” 1.5M€, REA HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-01 “RATION” 7M€). He (has) participate(d)s also as external collaborator through bioinformatics service providing and microbial ecology consultancies for research and academic institutes (NIREAS, Nicosia, Cyprus; University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia), and the industry (Advanced Analytical Technologies, Fiorenzuola d’ Arda, Piacenza, Italy). Finally, he is a Management Committee member for the COST-Action Water4Reuse. He authored 86 articles in peer-reviewed journals (Scopus citations 2405, h-index 30 / Google scholar citations 3221, h-index 34).

Projects

Antimicrobial Resistance Dispersal – Risk Assessment
Functional metagenomics and Synthetic microbial ecology
Plant microbiome
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PhD Theses

Marios Valmas: Pathogenicity and environment: risk of dispersal of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance (ongoing)

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Publications

Manukyan, A., Pedrinho, A., Karas, P. A., Papadopoulos, C., Katsoula, A., Vasileiadis, S., Karpouzas, D. G., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2026). Mycorrhizal inoculum–mediated modulation of maize–rhizosphere interactions under pesticide stress. European Journal of Soil Biology, 130, 103844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2026.103844

Iakovides, I. C., Vasileiadis, S., Christou, A., Karaolia, P., Mina, T., Rocha, J., Duan, Y., Beretsou, V. G., Gallois, N., Changey, F., Michael, C., Coelho, L. P., Manaia, C. M., Merlin, C., & Fatta-Kassinos, D. (2026). Storage and soil depth, in addition to wastewater treatment, govern microbiota, and mobile genetic element and antibiotic resistance markers during reclaimed water irrigation. Water Research, 300, 125889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2026.125889

Feka, M., Tsiouri, O., Manresa, M., Vasileiadis, S., Flors, V., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2026). Priming plants to withstand drought tolerance: Systemic responses of tomato plants mediated by a root-residing fungal endophyte. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 231, 111058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2026.111058

Tsiouri, O., Argyri, A., Skiada, V., Avramidou, M., Dadami, E., Vasileiadis, S., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2026). Comparative analysis towards the identification of genome wide characteristics of a beneficial fungal endophyte. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-47792-0

Katsivelou, E., Perruchon, C., Karas, P. A., Sarantidou, A., Pappa, E., Katsoula, A., Ligda, P., Sotiraki, S., Martin-Laurent, F., Vasileiadis, S., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2023). Accelerated dissipation, soil microbial toxicity and dispersal of antimicrobial resistance in soils repeatedly exposed to tiamulin, tilmicosin and sulfamethoxazole. Science of The Total Environment, 893, 164817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164817

Michelioudakis, V., Zafranas, A., Myrisiotis, C., Makri, S., Katsoula, A., Campos, M., Vasileiadis, S., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2026). Comparative Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Why Paenarthrobacter Strains Are Specialists in the Degradation of the Fungicide Iprodione. Microbial Biotechnology, 19(2), e70319. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70319

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