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I was born in 1971, in Athens, Greece. I studied at the University of Athens, where I was awarded my Ph.D. degree in 2002 under the supervision of Professor Theodosios Christodoulakis. Then I moved to Barcelona, Spain, for a postdoctoral position at the University of Barcelona from Jan. 2003 till Dec. 2004. Then I moved back to Athens for a second postdoctoral position at the University of Athens from Jan. 2005 to Jun. 2007. In 2008, I was elected as Researcher C at the Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics (RCAAM) of the Academy of Athens. In 2011, I got my tenure and was promoted to a Researcher B. In Sept. 2013, I moved to Kuwait University as Associate Professor and joined the Theoretical Physics Group in the Department of Physics.

I serve as Editorial Board Member for the international peer-review journals: Universe, Gravitation and Cosmology, and Advances in High Energy Physics. Additionally, I am the Review Editor for International Journal of Modern Physics D (IJMPD) and Modern Physics Letters A (MPLA). Furthermore, I act as referee for more than 15 journals.
In 2007, I co-authored with Professor Saurya Das and Sean P. Robinson a paper published in the International Journal of Modern Physics D which received a "Honorable Mention" in the Gravity Research Foundation Annual Essay Competition.
In 2013, I co-authored with D. Singleton and T. Zhu a paper which received the Fourth Prize in 2013 FQXi's Essay Contest. In 2018, I co-authored with Saurya Das and Mir Faizal which received a "Honorable Mention" in the Gravity Research Foundation Annual Essay Competition.


My CV can be found here (in pdf format) [updated as of July 2023]