Dimitris obtained his BSC from the Environmental Science Department at the University of the Aegean in Lesvos, Greece where he focused on scintillation counters for radon monitoring. He holds an MSc and a PhD degree in Time-of-Flight mass spec instrumentation development from Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. During post-doctoral training in New Mexico State University the focus of his research was on developing differential ion mobility spectrometers coupled to mass spectrometry. Dimitris has also worked at the Shimadzu Research Laboratory (SRL) developing hybrid mass analyzers and he is also the inventor of the low pressure differential mobility spectrometer. In August 2014 he received the Curt Brunnée Award by the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation for outstanding contributions to the development of the theoretical understanding of ion behaviors and implementation of this knowledge in new devices for ion optics and ion mobility. The award was primarily given for the successful demonstration of ion separation based on differential mobility properties of ions in low pressure laminarized subsonic flows.
Dimitris most recent contribution to the field of mass spectrometry is the development of the omnitrap platform, a unique a linear ion trap designed to provide access to an extensive arsenal of ion activation-dissociation techniques for the comprehensive analysis of proteins in the gas phase.