Triantafyllos Albanis is a Professor in Technologies of Environmental Analysis and Protection at the Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1979 and received his PhD from the Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina. He received a Post-doctoral fellowship from the Department of Biochemistry, at the State University of Texas at San Antonio, USA in 1989 and the Department of Earth and Physical Sciences, at the State University of Texas at San Antonio, USA in 1990. He obtained a Research Fellowship (in Environmental Toxicology, PFT: Biomonitoring methods in environment) from the European Science Foundation (ESF) (1995), University of Kuopio, Finland in 1995. He served as a Scientific Associate at the Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina from 1982 to 1988, as a lecturer from 1988 to 1998, as Assistant Professor from 1992 to 1998, as Associate Professor from 1998 to 2003, and as Professor since 2003. His research interests include monitoring and environmental quality and environmental technologies.