Panagiotis Hantzios obtained his BSc in Physics from the University of Athens in 1981 and his PhD in Astronomy from the Ohio State University (USA) in 1988. From 1989 till 1999, he was Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Observatory of Athens (NOA). From 2000 to 2005, he worked as scientific staff at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of NOA. In 2005, he was elected Associate Researcher and as of 2009, he works as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing of NOA.

Spectroscopy of Cataclysmic Binaries and Accretion Disks, Solar Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy of Stellar Populations in the Maggellanic Clouds, UHE Astrophysics with the NESTOR neutrino telescope.