Welcome to Kanaras Group
Contact Details
Prof. Antonios Kanaras
Department of Chemistry
School of Science
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
15772, Zografou, Athens, Greece
Email: akanaras@uoa.gr
Phone: +30-210-727-4151
Brief CV
Prof. Antonios Kanaras is a graduate of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Crete and holds a Master's degree in Bioinorganic Chemistry from the University of Ioannina. He completed his doctoral thesis in Nanochemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Liverpool, focusing on the chemical synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles and their applications.
He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, concentrating on the chemical synthesis and energy applications of semiconductor nanoparticles. He then served as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Southampton, where he led the laboratory of inorganic functional nanoparticles and their applications. In 2018, he was appointed Full Professor in the same department, and in the summer of 2025 he moved to the Department of Chemistry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Antonios has authored over 100 scientific Publications in prestigious international and interdisciplinary journals and conference proceedings and has delivered over 100 invited talks at leading European and international conferences. In 2013, he was named a rising star by the scientific journal Chemical Communications. Members of his research group have received gold and silver medals at the STEM for BRITAIN research showcase event in the biomedical sciences category, held at the UK Parliament. Antonios has supervised more than 100 undergraduate, postgraduate and visiting students as well as postdoctoral researchers. Fourteen postgraduate students have completed their PhDs under his supervision to date.
He has undertaken various Teaching and administrative responsibilities and recently served as a member of the Senate at the University of Southampton (2020–2024). He has been elected Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Biology, and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
His research has been funded by a wide range of bodies, including the BBSRC, EPSRC, the Royal Society, the Leverhulme Trust, and industry.
