Dimitris Matiadis

Affiliations: Dimitris Matiadis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens (AUTh) since November 2024. He also holds teaching/research roles at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of West Attica since 2019.

Education: BSc in Chemistry (University of Ioannina, 2005), PhD in Chemistry (National Technical University of Athens, NTUA, 2013).

Research Focus: Synthesis of bioactive molecules from natural products, structure-activity relationships of anticancer/antimicrobial agents, design of nitrogen heterocycles, and development of chemosensors for environmental/biological applications. His work spans antimicrobial compounds, curcumin analogs, pyrazolines, and anion/cation detection systems.

Awards & Activities: Recipient of two major fellowships (IKY-SIEMENS & IKY Postdoctoral Enhancement). Serves as evaluator for Serbian Science Fund (since 2019) and RSC Grants (since 2023), and peer reviewer for journals like Wiley, Springer, and RSC. His h-index is 12 with 422 total citations (342 excluding self-citations).

Teaching: Leads courses in Organic Chemistry, General & Inorganic Chemistry, and Instrumental Chemical Analysis at AUTh (5 credits each, 5 hours/week).