Hellenic Agricultural Organization "DEMETER"- Dept. of Apiculture
Hellenic Agricultural Organization "Demeter" - Dept. of Agricultural Engineering

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F. Hatjina is senior researcher (PhD, Univ. of Cardiff-UK) in bee science. Her research interests focus on honeybee breeding and mating behaviour, disease resistance and Environmental risk assessment. She serves as an expert in EFSA and OECD and she is coordinator of an APIMONDIA working group. She coordinated Greek national and European Bilateral research projects on the characterisation of the Greek honeybee populations, on the quality of queens and biological control against Varroa funded by the EC and the Greek Government. She was MC member of Cost Action FA0803 "COLOSS" and currently of Cost Action FA1307 "SUPER-B". In the SMARTBEES project (www.smartbees.eu) she acts as a National Co-coordinator for the breeding activities and performance testing of the colonies, as well as National Coordinator for the monitoring activities of varroa resistance populations run under the EurBeST project. She has been lecturing in the Aristotelian Uni. of Thessaloniki and Higher Educational Institution of Thessaloniki, as well as in many national and international beekeepers’ meetings. She has authored more than 40 scientific papers and more than 120 articles in local journals and newspapers. Member of I.B.R.A. Council. President of APIMONDIA’s Bee Health Scientific Commission. She has 55 peer-review articles, a h-index of 19 and his research got 1400 citations (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fani_Hatjina).