Vlasis Mavrantzas received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1988 and his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware (USA), Department of Chemical Engineering, in 1994 working with Prof. Antony Beris. In 1996 he joined the research team of Prof. Doros Theodorou in Patras as a post-doctoral fellow. In 1997 he was appointed associate researcher at the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (FORTH-ICE/HT) where in 2001 he was promoted to associate researcher. In 2002 he was elected associate professor at the University of Patras where he has been the director of the Laboratory of Statistical Thermodynamics and Macromolecules in the Department of Chemical Engineering. In 2010 he was promoted to the level of Full Professor. Currently he is guest professor at ETH-Z (Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland). He is the author of about 100 scientific papers in the field of polymer modelling and simulation and of 7 chapters in Books. He has served as the President of the Hellenic Society of Rheology (2004-2006) and since 2005 he has been on the International Advisory Board of “Macromolecular Theory and Simulation”.

The abstract of his colloquium can be found here