Christos Chatzidoukas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and director of the Laboratory of Biochemical and Biotechnological Processes (LB2P) at AUTh.He obtained a Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process Systems Engineering (CPSE), Imperial College London, in 2004. He has participated in 16 research projects, including European and National initiatives, and has served as the Scientific Coordinator for eight of them. He has supervised more than 40 undergraduate students during their thesis work and 4 Ph.D. candidates. His research output includes 42 peer-reviewed publications, 523 citations and an h-index of 14 (Scopus, December 2024). He has also presented more than 110 papers at national and international conferences. His research topics mainly include microbial processes, microbial products, enzymatic processes, algal cultivation and harvesting, the production of biochemicals and biodegradable polymers from renewable resources, biomass utilization under sustainability criteria, the scale-up of chemical and biochemical processes, and the production of polymeric micro- and nanoparticles for the encapsulation of bioactive compounds. He also specializes in dynamic simulation and optimization of chemical and biochemical reactors in transient and real-time operations.