Thomas Mavromoustakos is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed his bachelor's studies in the Chemistry Department of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1985, and then moved to the University of Connecticut, USA, where he pursued graduate studies in the Medicinal Chemistry Section of the Pharmacy Department. He served as a research director in the Laboratory of Molecular Analysis of the Institute of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the National Hellenic Research Foundation for 17 years. In 2007, he was elected as Associate Professor in the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, and in 2012, he was promoted to Full Professor. He also served as the President of a Research Center in Cyprus oriented towards developing new natural products. He was awarded by the Academy of Greek Science for the best research in 1998 related to hypertension. He has received fellowships from the Royal Society, Fulbright, and Institute of Federal Fellowships in Greece to perform research in England, the USA, and Germany. His research interests include (a) rational drug design; (b) understanding the molecular features responsible for drug activity through molecular docking, molecular dynamics, and quantitative structure–activity relationships; (c) drug delivery aspects; and (d) drug–membrane interactions.