Bio

S. H. Anastasiadis is a Professor of Polymer Science & Engineering at the Dept. of Chemistry of the Univ. of Crete and the Director of FO.R.T.H.-I.E.S.L. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1988. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1988-1989. He was awarded the John H. Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society in 1998 and was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000. He has been an Editor of the Journal of Polymer Science: Part B: Polymer Physics (5/2006-7/2010). He served as a Consulting Editor of the AIChE Journal. He is elected Member of the Evaluation and Accreditation Council of the Hellenic Authority of Higher Education. He is a member of the Academic Quality Assurance Unit and the Vice Chair of the Committee on Research Integrity and Ethics of the University of Crete whereas he has served as the Vice Chair of the Technical Council of the Univ. of Crete. He was the elected President of the European Polymer Federation (EPF, www.epfwebsite.org) for the years 2018 and 2019. He serves as President of the Hellenic Polymer Society (ELEP, 12/2012-now).