
Eleni Skaltsa is a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy & Chemistry of Natural Products, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Her research interests focus on: Isolation and structure elucidation of specialized metabolites from higher plants; Biological activities of plants/natural products; History of Pharmacy & Ethnopharmacology.
She has 213 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and more than 200 presentations in Greek and international congresses. She holds several grants from GSRI (General Secretariat of Research and Innovation). She has supervised 15 Ph. D. theses; 57 M. Sc. theses; several diploma theses, while more are in progress.
Actually, she is member of the Drug Price Negotiation Committee (since Dec. 2019, Greek Ministry of Health) and Vice-chairman of the Committee of medicinal Cannabis (since 2020, Greek Ministry of Health).
Since January 2023, she is Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Phytochemistry.