Dr. Varias performs research within Euro Harmonization and Engineering activity. He is a Coordinator of PPC Inspectra, a company of Public Power Corporation Group. He received Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics and M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, as well as Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He was also awarded the title of Docent in Mechanics of Materials from Malmö University. He has worked in the sectors of Education, Defense and Energy. He carried out research, designed and coordinated projects, for more than 20 years, publishing several original studies in the areas of Hydrogen Embrittlement, Fracture Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials and Computational Mechanics. He worked in the area of standardization, for about 10 years in the Ministry of National Defense of Greece, where he redesigned the standardization framework of Hellenic Armed Forces.