Dr. Fotis Katsaros is born in Athens (1969). He graduated from the NKUA (Athens), obtaining a Degree in Chemistry (1991). He joined the Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR “Demokritos” as research fellow. He was awarded a PhD Scholarship (1993) and received his PhD by NKUA (2000). After finishing his studies, he worked as researcher (by contract) for the Materials and Membranes for Environmental Separations Laboratory of the Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR “Demokritos”. During the period 2001-2006 he was permanent scientist in Demokritos. In 2006 he was elected as Researcher in the institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR “Demokritos”. Since 2015 he is Research Director in the “Materials and Membranes for Environmental Separations” Laboratory of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. His current research interests focus on the:

• Synthesis and characterization of nanoporous materials
• Design and development of nanoparticles
• Preparation of adsorbents, catalysts/phototocatalysts and nanofillers for environmental applications, energy storage and conversion. 

He is co-author in 70 publications in peer reviewed journals (>3000 citations, h-Index: 27), in 4 book chapters and of 4 patents. He has 18 invited talks and more than 90 presentations in international conference and proceedings. He is now co-editing the Special Issue “Environmental Remediation via Metal-oxides-mediated Heterogeneous Photocatalysis” in Catalysts (MDPI). During his 20-years research, he has been involved in about 15 European and National research projects. Dr. F. Katsaros was the coordinator of the NEXT-GEN-CAT project (FP7-NMP-2011-SMALL-5) for the development of novel PGM free auto-catalysts. He was also the scientific coordinator of PARTIAL-PGMs project (H2020-NMP-2014-2015). He is evaluator of scientific projects (EU, Greece, Cyprus) and member of the editorial board of Materials (MDPI), Catalytic Materials Section.