Dr Stefanos Kikionis is currently a senior post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, School of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UOA). He graduated from the School of Chemistry in 2003 (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and obtained his PhD in 2009 (School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)). Following completion of his education he undertook postdoctoral positions at the Organic Chemistry Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA, (2010-2012), Department of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, Faculty of Pharmacy, UOA, (2012-2015), Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, (2014-2015) and the Institute of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National Hellenic Research Foundation (2015-2016). In 2018 he completed a Short-Term Scientific Mission (COST ACTION CM1407) at the Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest. He was a member of the Organizing Committee for the 10th European Conference on Marine Natural Products (ECMNP 2017), Crete and he has acted as reviewer for several scientific journals for research articles relevant to his expertise. His research activities are focusing mainly in the exploitation of marine biopolymers for the development of novel biocomposites, electrospun nanofibers, biomedical scaffolds, composite and hybrid materials for biomedical applications.