Prof. Hermis Iatrou

Dr. Hermis Iatrou is a professor of chemistry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. He obtained his undergraduate degree in chemistry (1989) from NKUA. Dr. Iatrou received his PhD in chemistry from NKUA at the end of 1993 under the supervision of Professor Nikos Hadjichristidis. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany from 1994 to 1995 under the supervision of Professor Dieter Richter through a Marie Curie project. After finishing his military duty in the Greek army, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA from 1996 to 1997. He was appointed as an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department of NKUA in 2002, gained tenure in 2005, was promoted to assistant professor in 2009, and to full professor in 2015. His research interests are nanomedicine, biopolymers, polypeptides, synthesis of model biopolymers, and drug and gene delivery.