Konstantinos Makris

Dr Konstantinos Makris, a full professor of environmental health sciences and directs the Precision Exposomics and Health Laboratory (KLOTHO) at the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, School of Health Sciences at the Cyprus University of Technology. He also serves as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2026-2029).

He is the coordinator of the Cyprus Children's Health and Environment Cohort Observatory CHILDREN_FIRST. The CLOTHO Lab applies the methodological principles of the Human Exposome concept and its exposomics tools to advance precision prevention and preventive health applications to chronic disease prevention and control. He has authored over 150 original, peer-reviewed articles published in international journals. He was one of the two researchers who conducted the study on the brain cancer cluster around the Astrasol plant in Cyprus. Mr. Makris was invited by the Environment and Health Committee of the Cyprus Parliament to provide technical testimony on the health consequences of the surrounding populations following the tragedy/explosion in Mari, Cyprus and has also served as a member of the scientific advisory committee to the Ministry of Health on arsenic exposures in areas of Cyprus.

He is a member of the Council of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) in Europe (2023-). He chairs the ISEE Special Interest Group of Pesticides and Health (2025-). He is a Collaborator of the Global Burden of Disease network (2021-). He delivered a presentation at the European Parliament about children's health and the utility of the human exposome (June 2025).