Nonlinear Dynamics, Computational Statistical Physics, Computational Solid-State Physics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Polymers, Biobased Polymers, Biodegradation, Biophysics and Evolutionary Dynamics.

Dr. Mistriotis obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Physics from the University of Athens in 1980. In the same year, he started his graduate studies in the Physics Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in Nonlinear Dynamics in 1986. Following his army service in Greece (1986), he worked as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), FORTH, Crete (1987), conducting research on Molecular Dynamics simulation of silicon clusters and surfaces. In 1988, he visited the Department of Physics of the University of Bayreuth, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow, where he worked on numerical studies of strongly correlated electron systems. He returned to Crete, where he worked as a visiting assistant professor and researcher (1988-1993), continuing his research on computational Material Science. He received a Marie-Curie European postdoctoral fellowship (1994-1996) and worked in the Department of Agrophysics, IMAG-DLO, Wageningen, the Netherlands, on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the analysis of the ventilation in greenhouses and other agricultural buildings. Continuing his research in agricultural engineering, he worked in the Laboratory of Farm Structures of the Agricultural University of Athens (1997-2024), where he supported scientifically and administratively several European and national research projects on farm buildings and plastics used in agriculture, including biodegradable, biobased plastics. He is currently collaborating with the Statistical Mechanics and Dynamical Systems Laboratory at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR “Demokritos” as an associate researcher, where his work focuses on Biophysics topics, including dynamical physical models of evolution related to the origin of life.