Demetzos Constantinos

Costas Demetzos is Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He serves as Director of the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology and since 2008 he serves as President of the Hellenic Pharmaceutical Society (HPS). His research interest is primarily on Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (lipidic, polymeric and mixed drug delivery nanosystems), Physical Pharmacy, Nanomedicine, Thermodynamics and Biophysics of nanoplatforms, Pharmaceutical Compounding and Regulatory Aspects. He has been awarded national and international patents, that have nanotechnological drug delivery systems, as their main object. He teaches in the Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Medicine of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, the courses of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology and nano-Pharmacology, respectively, on undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has gained awards and honors for his contribution to the science of biomaterials and of pharmaceutical nanotechnology. He has published more than 300 research papers [h index 56), i10-index 194 (google scholar)], six monographs, he has co-authored one book and edited eight books. He has supervised more than 15 PhD students, 30 master’s students and more than 40 undergraduate Dissertations. His participation in the European COST programs helped in the mobility of his students and his lab members to Europe. He is the author of related University notes, textbooks, and monographs. He participates as a member of Scientific Organizing Committees and as a President of International and European scientific Conferences, while being an evaluator in many National and International committees. He was an elected member of the ExCo of EUFEPS (Network Coordinator) (2013-2016). At present, he is a member of the International Advisory Committee for Alzheimer’s disease (2019 – present), and of the Hellenic Initiative Against Alzheimer Disease (HIAAD) (2019- present). He is also a member of the editorial board of scientific journals serving as an expert in the field of pharmaceutical nanotechnology. In 2018 Costas Demetzos, was honored with an award by the Order of Sciences of the Academy of Athens for his scientific achievements in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology and for his monograph ‘Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology. Fundamentals and Practical Applications’, Springer, 2016. In 2021, Prof. Demetzos has been elected as an Ordinary member in Class IV-Natural Sciences of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea). Since 2023 he acts as Associate Editor of the prestigious International Journal on nanotechnology, Journal of Liposome Research (JLR). In 2024, he will be awarded by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with the excellence of the outstanding University teaching of the Faculty of Health Sciences as a distinguished professor.