Nikos Hadjichristidis obtained his BSc at the University of Athens, Greece, in 1966, his PhD at the University of Liege, Belgium in 1971, and his DSc at the University of Athens, Greece, in 1978. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Liege (1971–1972) and at the National Research Council of Canada (1972–1973).

In 1973 he became a lecturer at the University of Athens, Department of Chemistry, followed by promotions to Assistant Professor (1982), Associate Professor (1985) and Full Professor (1988). He has been the Director of the Industrial Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Athens since 1994 and the Chairman of the Chemistry Department (1991–1995, 1999-2003 and 2005-2009). He has supervised 45 Ph.D. and 55 Masters’ theses.

Nikos Hadjichristidis was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Liege (Summers 1974, 1975); Visiting Research officer at the NRC of Canada (Summer 1976), Visiting Scientist at the University of Akron (Summers 1977 through 1982) and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the NRC of Canada (1983). He has been a Visiting Professor at Exxon Research and Engineering Co, NJ since 1984, where he spends 1–2 months every year and at REPSOL-YPF Research Center, Madrid since 2000, where he spends 1-2 weeks every year. He was also an Invited Professor in the graduate courses in Polymer Chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (2003) and the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen (2004 and 2006), as well as at the PLAPIQUI (Institute of Chemical Engineering of the National Research Council of Argentina), Bahia Blanca, Argentina (2004) and the Simon Bolivar University (Department of Material Science), Caracas, Venezuela (2005). He has given numerous plenary lectures at International Symposia, as well as invited seminars at Universities, Institutes and Industries worldwide.

Nikos Hadjichristidis has served as the President of the European Polymer Federation (1995–1996), as a Member of the National Advisory Research Council (1994-2007), as the President of the State Highest Chemical Board (1995-2005), and was the Director of the Institute of ‘‘Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry’’ of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (2000-2001).

Nikos Hadjichristidis received the Academy of Athens Award for Chemistry (1989), the Empirikion Award for Sciences (1994), the Greek Chemists Association Award (2000), the ACS PMSE A. K. Doolittle Award (2003), the International Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ, 2007) and the ACS PMSE Cooperative Research Award (2010). He was elected as a PMSE Fellow for 2004 and was the “Ralph Milkovich” Memorial Lecturer for 2006 at the University of Akron. He was also a Member of the Editorial Board of “Macromolecules” (1997-1999), and is currently an Editorial Board Member of “Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry” (since 2001), “Progress in Polymer Science” (since 2001) and is Editor of “European Polymer Journal” (since 2002).

Nikos Hadjichristidis has dedicated his career primarily to the synthesis of model polymers and has published 370 papers and 23 reviews in referred scientific journals (citations until 12th of October 2009: 10200, h-index: 54, Web of Science), 4 patents, two books (editor), and is the author of one book on Block Copolymers (Wiley 2003).