Dimitris Matiadis is an Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens since November 2024. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ioannina in 2005 and completed his Ph.D. at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2013. From 2013 to 2021, as a postdoctoral researcher at the NTUA, NHRF and NCSR “Demokritos” he focused on the design and synthesis of bioactive organic compounds, such as heterocycles and cyclic peptides, as well as inorganic molecules. In parallel, during 2019-2025, he worked as an Adjunct Professor at the University of West Attica.

As Principal Investigator, he has received three research grants (RSC Research Fund 2025-2026, IKY-SIEMENS 2015–2017 and IKY Postdoctoral Researchers Enhancement 2019–2021). As a member of research teams, he has worked on two projects, "Thales" and "KREPIS". He is an external participant of a COST Innovators Grant (2025-2026)

He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Association of Greek Chemists, and the European Peptide Society.

Since 2019, he has been an evaluator of scientific proposals for the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia and, since 2023, a member of the RSC Researcher Grants Peer Review Group.

He serves as a reviewer for international scientific journals published by Wiley, Springer Nature, RSC, Cell Press, Taylor & Francis, and others.

He has 37 publications in international scientific journals (2020–2024: 21 articles), an h-index of 13, and >500 citations of his work (>400 excluding self-citations of all authors).

Current Research:

• Synthesis of molecules based on natural products and their analogs to investigate their properties and structure-activity relationships concerning anticancer, antimicrobial, antiparasitic, insecticidal, or other biological activities.
• Design and synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds, such as pyrazolines and pyrimidines, and study of their biological or physicochemical properties.
• Development of new chemosensors for the detection and determination of anions, cations, or neutral molecules with applications in food, the environment, cells, or biological fluids.