Dr. Thanasis Gimisis

Thanasis Gimisis is a Full Professor and currently the Director of the Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, at the National and The Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed his Ph.D. studies back in 1993 at the University of Michigan and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the ISOF Institute (formerly ICOCEA), CNR, Bologna, Italy (1994–1998) with individual Marie Curie and Ciba-Geigy scholarships and at the University of Crete (Marie Curie Return Grant and “Career Award for Greek-speaking researchers working abroad”, 1998–2000). He has served in the Department of Chemistry as Lecturer (2000-2004), Assistant (2004–2008), Tenured Assistant (2008-2010), Associate Professor (2010-2019), and Full Professor (2019–present). He has secured funding through >20 competitive research projects from National and European funds. Through them, he has developed collaborations with laboratories in Greece and abroad to support his research activity. His research results have been published in >70 theses and >51 international publications, and presented in >70 national and international conferences and >20 invited lectures. His research in the field of glycoside and nucleoside synthetic organic chemistry focuses on three main directions: (a) the synthesis and study of oxidatively-produced DNA lesions, (b) the synthesis and study of theragnostic glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors, and (c) the chemistry of oleuropein and related secoiridoid natural products.