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Nikolaos Eleftheriadis was born on the 27th of October 1986 in Thessaloniki, Greece. In July 2010, he graduated with BSc in Chemistry from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He did his BSc thesis at the Organic Chemistry Laboratory. In June 2012, he graduated with MSc in Organic Chemistry from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He was awarded for outstanding performance of the MSc degree from Alexandrou Foundation. In December 2012, he moved to Groningen to pursue his doctoral degree in the division of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Biology. His research focused on the inhibition and detection of 15-lipoxygenase, an enzyme which plays a crucial role in the biosynthesis of inflammatory signaling molecules. He obtained his PhD with the distinction cum laude. Later, he joined as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Molecular Microscopy (University of Groningen) and Molecular Bacteriology (KU Leuven). Since 2021, Dr. Eleftheriadis is an Assistant professor in Biochemistry of the Chemistry Department at the University of Crete.