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Georgios Panagiaris
Georgios (George) Panagiaris is a biologist (biological sciences) and he is licensed by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture as Conservator of Organic Materials. He is professor and president at the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, University of West Attica, GR (UniWA). He has been director (2015–18) at the interinstitutional postgraduate course entitled ‘Museum studies’, co-organized by the University of Athens and UniWA and member of its administration board (2003–present). He is an official national expert and voting member in CEN/TC346 working at European level to standardize the work of the Cultural Heritage Preservation. He is a member of the ICOM Conservation Committee with active participation in working groups dealing with collections of natural history and ethics issues. His scientific/research activity focuses on issues of conservation of organic materials with emphasis on forensic science specimens, human remains and collections of natural history, issues of biodeterioration in museum collections and on ethical management of these. He has participated as principal author in numerous collective publications, original papers in scientific journals and in international or Greek conferences. He has coordinated many research programmes and he is reviewer in Elsevier and Taylor & Francis editions.
Contact: Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, School of Applied Arts & Culture, University of West Attica, Egaleo Park, Agioy Spyridonos, 12243, Athens, Greece.