Athanasios G. Konstandopoulos Dr. Athanasios G. Konstandopoulos, is the the Founder and Director of the Aerosol & Particle Technology Laboratory (APTL) at CPERI/CERTH (Thessaloniki, Greece), since 1996 and in 2006 he was elected as Director of CPERI and member of the Board of Directors of CERTH.  Since 2006 he is also a member of the faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece).  A specialist in nanoparticles and combustion aerosols, he has extensive research and engineering consulting experience in the design, modeling and testing of monolithic reactors for many applications including solar hydrogen production, emission control for mobile and stationary applications and biotechnological applications. His most recent awards include the 2006 Descartes Prize for Research, the 2006 International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE) Inaugural Technical Achievement Award and the Global 100 Eco-tech Award at the 2005 Expo in Aichi, Japan, serving as coordinator of the HYDROSOL project which introduced and developed a novel technology for solar hydrogen production. In 2005 he was elected as one of the youngest ever Fellows of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). In addition he has received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers First Place Award (1991) and the Yale University H. P. Becton Prize for excellence in research (1992).  He has coordinated and managed more than 50 research projects, funded by the European Commission (EC) as well as leading international industries and European SMEs.  He is the author of more than 140 scientific and technical papers, his research is widely cited and used by many academic and industrial research groups, and he is frequently an invited speaker in industry and scientific conferences.  Dr. Konstandopoulos reviews publications for several scientific journals and he also serves as an evaluator for international research funding organizations. He has served as adjunct/visiting professor in Universities in Europe and the US, and he is among others a member of SAE, The Combustion Institute, the Gessellschaft fur Aerosolforchung and the Hellenic Association for Aerosol Research (elected to be its first president for 2006-2012). He has a hybrid background in Mechanical (Dipl. ME, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1985; MSc ME Michigan Tech, 1987) and Chemical Engineering (MSc, MPhil, PhD, Yale University, 1991).