Alexandros G. Georgakilas is currently a Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. At Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, he completed post-doctoral research as a research associate in the Biology Department from 2001–2003 and developed his own research laboratory as an Associate Professor with tenure at East Carolina University until 2012. He has also received awards such as the Young Investigator Travel Award from the Radiation Research Society, the Radiation Research Society SIT Award, the ECU Thomas Harriot College Research Award, and the prestigious Terashima Award from the Japan Radiation Research Society. In recent years he and his group have developed bioinformatics methodologies for the study of the response of biological systems to ionizing radiation, embracing systems biology approaches. His research topics mainly include radiation biophysics, DNA damage and repair, systemic effects, inflammation, immune response, carcinogenesis, biopolymers, and dielectric relaxation spectroscopy. His work has been cited more than 15000 times with an h-index= 56. He is at the 2% of most cited scientists in the world according to the current list published by Stanford University, USA.