Professor Yannis Missirilis - Professor Yannis Missirlis graduated as Chemical Engineer from the NTUA (Athens-1969), received a M.Sc in Chemical Engineering, (Syracuse-USA, 1971) and his Ph.D. from Rice University (Houston-1973) in Biomedical Engineering.
Prof. Missirlis was Assistant /Associate Professor at McMaster University (Canada,1974-1980) before joining the University of Patras in 1981, as a full Professor, directing since then the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, until his retirement (1/9/2013).
Prof. Missirlis has served as Vice-Rector of the University (1986-1988), as a member of the European, and the World Council of Biomechanics.
He is an Honorary Member of European Society of Biomechanics, and of the ESB (Biomaterials). In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE).
He has coauthored a textbook: “Biomaterials, A Tantalus Experience”( Helsen-Missirlis, 2011), coedited 2 books: “ Modern aspects of Protein Adsorption on Biomaterials” (Missirlis-Lemm, 1991) and “ The role of Platelets in Blood- Biomaterial Interactions” ( Missirlis-Wautier, 1993).
He has published >90 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, several chapters in books, and currently is active in the area of cell-material interactions, mechanotransduction, tissue engineering, biomechanics from nano-to macro level, mechano-epigenetics.
Prof. Missirlis is currently a SUNUM Affiliated Researcher (Sabanci University Nanotechnology Center, Istanbul, Turkey), and Collaborator of the LTFN Laboratory at Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece.