Dr. Konstantinos C. Makris is a full professor of environmental health sciences and supervises the CLOTHO Precision Exposomics and Health laboratory at the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health within the School of Health Sciences at the Cyprus University of Technology. He was an adjunct assistant professor of environmental health at the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University, USA (2009-2015). His research team aims to reduce population health risks attributed to multiple environmental stressors (chemical and physical). Toward this, his team applies the human exposome concept and its exposomic tools in population studies in Cyprus, Greece, France, Kuwait, the Netherlands, and Norway. He leads the CHILDREN_FIRST children cohort study set up in Cyprus, Israel, Greece and Albania towards improved understanding the temporal evolution of the human exposome as it shapes children’s growth and development curves using novel exposomic tools. His laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments worth > 0.5 million euros to generate biomarker and metabolomic data. Since 2009, he has received external funding of > 1.5 million euros from the EU, the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of Harvard University. He has authored over 130 journal articles and 50 conference reports. He was one of two researchers who conducted the brain cancer cluster investigation around the Astrasol plant emitting dichloromethane in Cyprus. He was invited by the Environment and Health Committee of the Cyprus Parliament to provide technical evidence on the health consequences of the surrounding populations following the tragedy / explosion in Mari, Cyprus and has also served as a member of the scientific advisory committee to the Ministry of Health about arsenic exposures in select subpopulation groups of Cyprus. He is a member of the European Council of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (2023-). He is a Global Burden of Disease network collaborator (2021-). He has been invited by > 20 universities and organizations in the USA / EU, such as Harvard University, Emory University, University of Alberta, University of Delaware etc. and has chaired >15 symposia at international conferences.
