Professor, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
European Patent Attorney -Entitled Representative before the Unified Patent Court.

In April 1987, he started working in the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich, where he stayed until the end of January of 1992. In EPO he worked as an examiner, with the exception of the last half year, when he joined the Directorate for Recruitment and Training of Examiners. In 1992 he returned to Athens and since then, he has been working privately initially as a consultant on IP and from 1999 until today as a European Patent Attorney. From January 2001 until January 2005 he suspended his activities as a European Patent Attorney, because he was nominated Director General of the Organization of Industrial Property of Greece by the Minister of Development of Greece (ministerial decision 60/ΕΦΑ/6/3.01.2001). In his capacity as Director General he was member of the Greek delegation in the Administrative Council of EPO and the Governing Bodies of the World Intellectual Property Organization. In 2003 he chaired the Working Group IP-Patents of the European Council. Since 2007 he has been a member of the European Patent Practice Committee (EPPC) of the European Patent Institute (epi).

Besides his core business, i.e. representing and consulting clients, he has  been lecturing in Greece and abroad on IP and he participated in international projects on various aspects of IP, such as enforcement, technology transfer, best practice.

Since 2003 he has  been involved in the negotiations for the creation of a title to protect the rights of inventors in all the EU member states and since 2016 he has been lecturing on Unitary patent and Unified Patent Court in seminars and specialized University courses.

In parallel to his profession in the field of IP, he is  professor of Ship Structures in the National Technical University of Athens.