Costas Kiparissides is professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of AUTh since 1981, and director of CERTH since 2005. He has supervised more than forty Ph.D. students and presented more than 200 invited seminars and lectures at international scientific conferences, industrial research centres, institutes and universities in North America and Europe. He has published more than 170 scientific papers and presented more than 300 papers in many international conferences.