Anastasios Melis 2014 International Biophysics Congress

Anastasios Melis

Biography – Anastasios Melis Anastasios Melis received his B.Sc. degree in Biology at the University of Athens, Greece, and the Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biophysics from the Florida State University. He received postdoctoral training in Biophysics at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands, and in Plant Biology at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University. He is a full Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Melis pioneered the concept of “Photosynthetic Biofuels”, a process where fuel and chemicals emanate from the primary products of photosynthesis with a single organism acting both as photocatalyst and processor, synthesizing and releasing useful products.