Dr. Konstantinos Papavasileiou holds a diploma in Computer aided Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry of University of Surrey in the U.K. and a Ph.D. in Theoretical/Computational Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ioannina. He has extensive experience in both classical simulations and quantum mechanical calculations of both material systems with complex chemical structure as well as biological systems and specializes in computational physical chemistry and nanoscience/nanotechnology. Prior to his current placement as a research associate at the Molecular Thermodynamics and Modelling of Materials Laboratory of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, he has worked for many years at the University of Ioannina and the Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry & Biotechnology of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His research work includes 23 publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, 3 book chapters and more than 30 presentations in international and domestic conferences