Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu

Dr. Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu is Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Bologna, President and cofounder of the spin-off company Lipinutragen and Chairman of the COST Action CM1201 on Biomimetic Radical Chemistry (2013-2016).

He received the doctorate degree in Industrial Chemistry from Bologna University in 1976 and completed his postdoctoral studies at York University (UK) and the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa. From March 2014 to May 2016 he was appointed as the Director of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the NCSR “Demokritos” in Athens (Greece).

He is the author or co-author of more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 34 book chapters and 6 patents. Author and editor of several books, including Organosilanes in Radical Chemistry, Wiley 2004; Encyclopedia of Radicals in Chemistry, Biology and Materials (4 volumes), Wiley 2012; Membrane Lipidomics for Personalized Health, Wiley 2015. His research interests lie in free radical reactions applied to biological mechanisms and biomarker discovery.