Alexandros Kanellopoulos

I’m interested in the ecology, functioning and agricultural applications of nitrogen cycling research. This includes the discovery and robust assessment of novel Biological Nitrification Inhibitors, and now investigating how organic nitrogen transformations influence nitrogen fluxes and greenhouse gas emissions. For this, I am currently integrating in vitro and in situ investigation with bioinformatical work to study how microbial communities involved in organic nitrogen transformations are shaped and influenced by their environment and how their composition and activity ties into inorganic nitrogen processes and emission of nitrous oxide.

You can see my publications here:

• Pedrinho, A., Kanellopoulos, A.E., Karas, P.A., Ramot, O., Vasileiadis, S., Karpouzas, D.G. (2025). Using amplicon sequencing in an ecotoxicological context: Applying species sensitivity distributions to assess the toxicity of biopesticides and a synthetic pesticide on soil microbiota. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf, 309:119590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2025.119590
• Ghatak, A., Kanellopoulos, A.E., Lopez-Hidalgo, C., Malits, A., Meng, Y., et al. (2025). Natural variation of the wheat root exudate metabolome and its influence on biological nitrification inhibition activity. Plant Biotechnol J, 23, 4755:4772. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70248
• Pedrinho, A., Karas, P.A., Kanellopoulos, A.E., Feray, E., Korman, I., Wittenberg, G., Ramot, O., Karpouzas, D.G. (2024), The effect of natural products used as pesticides on the soil microbiota: OECD 216 nitrogen transformation test fails to identify effects that were detected via q-PCR microbial abundance measurement. Pest Manag Sci, 80: 2563-2576. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.7961