Georgios P. Tsironis is Professor of Physics at the Physics Department of the University of Crete, Director of the Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology at the Physics Department of the University of Crete, and leads the Nonlinear and Statistical Physics Group at the IESL-FORTH. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics from the University of Rochester (USA) in 1987. He was a postdoctoral associate in the University of California San Diego (1987-89) and the Fermi National Accelerator Lab (1989-91), and assistant professor of Physics at the University of North Texas (1991-96). He joined the Department of Physics of the University of Crete in 1994. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Physics in the period 2007-2011 and Vice-Rector of the University of Crete in 2016-2017. He has published over 150 papers in refereed journals and has an h-index of 33. His research interests and activity are in the areas of condensed matter physics, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, nonlinear physics, superconducting metamaterials, and machine learning.​