Dimitrios Panias completed his PhD study on gold pyrometallurgy at the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1984. He is currently a metallurgical engineer and a Professor in Extractive Metallurgy at NTUA teaching Chemistry, Non-Ferrous Metals, Extractive Metallurgy, Transport Phenomena, Computational Chemical Thermodynamics, and Electrometallurgical Processes. He is also the head of the TeSMet (Technologies for Sustainable Metallurgy) research group which has undertaken numerous EU-funded research projects. His main research focuses on extractive metallurgy, electrometallurgy, waste Valorization, wastewater treatment, geopolymerization (lightweight porous and fire-resistant inorganic polymers), and chemical processing of ores and metallurgical wastes with ionic liquids.