**Education**: PhD in Chemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988. **Career**: professor of polymer chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has co-authored more than 380 scientific papers with about 14500 citations and h-index 64. He has participated in 55 national and European research projects, in 30 of which he was scientifically responsible. He holds 2 Greek and 15 international patents. **Research interests**: synthesis and characterization of polyesters, polymers from biobased monomers, copolymers and nanocomposites.