Dimitris Vlassopoulos graduated in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University, Athens in 1983 and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1990. From 1983–1984, he worked in Metelco, Greece. From 1990–1992, he worked for Mobil R&D, USA. Since 1992, he has served as a FORTH researcher, and as part of the University of Crete faculty since 2002. His research interests focus on (1) molecular rheology and rheo-physics in the bulk and at liquid interfaces, (2) branched, ring, and associating polymeric systems and networks, (3) soft colloids and mixtures, and (4) nonlinear rheological measurements.