Kostas Konstantinidis, Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kostas Konstantinidis, Ph.D., is the Richard C. Tucker Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Biological Sciences (adjunct) at Georgia Tech and program faculty for the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He earned his B.S. (1999) in agricultural sciences from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and his Ph.D. (2004) from the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, under the supervision of James Tiedje, Ph.D. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Konstantinidis was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT under the supervision of Ed DeLong, Ph.D.
The overarching goal of Konstantinidis' research is to advance understanding of how microorganisms adapt to human-induced environmental perturbations and cause disease. He is also interested in biotechnological applications of microbial diversity in the bioremediation of environmental pollutants and the assessment of water quality. Konstantinidis has published more than 200 papers in these areas, which have received more than 36,000 citations, according to Google Scholar. Accordingly, he has made the top 1% of the world's highly cited scientists and engineers list by Clarivate/Web of Science since 2020.
Konstantinidis' lab runs a server that makes the lab's bioinformatics tools available for online analysis; currently more than 3,000 users per month use this webserver.