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 2017, as a postdoctoral researcher at the NTUA Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, he focused on the synthesis and study of antimicrobial compounds and cyclic peptides. In 2018, he moved to the Institute of Biosciences & Applications at the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos," where he worked until the end of 2021 on the synthesis of bioactive organic molecules based on curcumin analogs. Since 2019, he has also undertaken teaching and research duties at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of West Attica.

He has received two research fellowships (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 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, MDPI, and others.

He has 34 publications in international scientific journals (2020–2024: 21 articles), an h-index of 12, and 422 citations of his work (342 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 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.