Associate professor
Bovine Production with emphasis in mitigation of environmental impact
Ruminant nutrition, Management of ruminant farms, Mitigation of environmental impact of animal farming.
Dr Andreas Foskolos graduated in 2001 from the Department of Animal Production of the Technological and Educational Institute of Larisa (Greece) and followed MSc studies at Wageningen University (The Netherlands) as scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece. Following a two years period working as animal nutritionist in Greece, he was enrolled in PhD studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), where he developed his PhD dissertation on strategies to reduce nitrogen pollution from dairy cattle farming. Then, Dr Foskolos worked as postodoctoral associate at Cornell University (USA) under Prof Michael Van Amburgh on upgrading the Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System resulting in version 6.5. In this update the protein sub-model was significantly improved and new approached on NDF degradations kinetics ion the rumen were incorporated. From 2015 to 2019, he worked as researcher at Aberystwyth University, where he was involved in several projects focused on reducing the environmental impact from bovine production, developing and implementing Life Cycle Assessement models. Since October 2019, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Animal Science at the University of Thessaly and manager of the Laboratory of Ruminant Livestock Farming.
Introduction in Animal Science
Ruminant Nutrition
Small Ruminant Production
Bovine Production
Hanlon, M. E., M. Simoni, J. M. Moorby, F. Righi, E. Tsiplakou, D. Kantas, and A. Foskolos. 2023. Effects of the addition of non-fibre carbohydrates with different rumen degradation rates in dairy cow high-forage diets using the Rumen Simulation Technique. Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience 17(4):100732.
Christodoulou, C., J. M. Moorby, E. Tsiplakou, D. Kantas, and A. Foskolos. 2021. Evaluation of nitrogen excretion equations for ryegrass pasture-fed dairy cows. Animal: an international journal of animal bioscience 15(9):100311.
Soteriades, A. D., A. Foskolos, D. Styles, and J. M. Gibbons. 2020. Maintaining production while reducing local and global environmental emissions in dairy farming. Journal of Environmental Management 272:111054.
Fessenden, S. W., A. Foskolos, T. J. Hackmann, D. A. Ross, E. Block, and M. E. Van Amburgh. 2019. Effects of a commercial fermentation byproduct or urea on milk production, rumen metabolism, and omasal flow of nutrients in lactating dairy cattle. J. Dairy Sci. 102(4):3023-3035
Foskolos, A. and J. M. Moorby. 2018. Evaluating lifetime nitrogen use efficiency of dairy cattle: A modelling approach. PloS one 13(8):e0201638.
Van Amburgh, M. E., E. A. Collao-Saenz, R. J. Higgs, D. A. Ross, E. B. Recktenwald, E. Raffrenato, L. E. Chase, T. R. Overton, J. K. Mills, and A. Foskolos. 2015. The Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System: Updates to the model and evaluation of version 6.5. J. Dairy Sci. 98(9):6361-6380.
