Dr. Antonios Theocharopoulos is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Dental Technology Division of the University of Western Attica (UNIWA), Athens, Greece, specializing in Dental Ceramic Restoration Technology. He is a graduate of the Dental Technology department of the former TEI of Athens, Greece, and holds a Master's in Dental Materials and a PhD in Bioceramics from the Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom. His PhD Thesis title was "Synthesis of low-wear and high strength nano-scale leucite glass-ceramics for Dentistry". He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (University College Cork, Ireland). He has worked as a Dental Technologist in the AestheticLab laboratory of Epameinondas Vlachopoulos, Athens, Greece (5 years), as a Laboratory Associate in the Dental Technology department of the former TEI of Athens, Greece (3.5 years), and as a Dental Technology Lecturer (Fixed Prosthodontics) at the Dental School of the University College Cork, Ireland (6 years). He is a holder of patents for Leucite glass-ceramics and was awarded the VoCo Prize for Dental Biomaterials Research at IADR, Barcelona, 2010. His research interests include dental biomaterial synthesis and characterization and dental education research (teaching methodologies, assessment techniques).