Manousos E. Kambouris

<p class="MsoNormal">Manousos E. Kambouris served in the Special Forces during his mandatory Tour of Duty in the Hellenic Army (1993-5). He owns a biology BSc (since 1992), and a PhD in Medical Mycology (since 2000), followed by 2-year Post Doc studies in the US (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ/Rutgers; 2000-2) and teaching or research contracts in 6 Greek universities and research centers from 2002 to 2025, while serving as a Chem/Bio consultant of the Hellenic Police Headquarters in the 2004 Athens Olympics. He has delivered invited lectures in the Hellenic National Defense College (2010-4), the Hellenic National Security School (2005), been pro bono consultant of the CO of the Joint NBC Company of the Hellenic Armed Forces in 2017-9 and been invited as an external ECDC expert for the &lsquo;Biological threats in the framework of hybrid threats scenarios Expert Meeting&rsquo; in 2024. He has published two books in Greek on Future and unorthodox warfare (2025, ISBNs: 978-618-5353-58-2 and 978-618-5353-60-5), and three books in English on Biosecurity: Hybrid Warfare 2.2 (Springer) Cham (2024), ISBN: 978-3-031-60018-0; Biosecurity in the making (CRC Press) Boca Raton FL (2023), ISBN: 9781032277325; Genomics in Biosecurity (Elsevier Academic Press) London (2021), ISBN: 978-0-32-385236-4. He has (co)authored 15 peer reviewed publications touching Biosecurity, Bioterrorism and Biowarfare that include both research papers and reviews out of a total of 56 publications to date.</p>