Stavros received his PhD in Chemical Engineering, in February 2009 from the University of Patras in Greece. His Phd work focused on studies that deal with the kinetics and mechanisms of elementary reactions of gases, on bimetallic surfaces. After working as a visiting scientist at Synchrotron Radiation Facilities, Fermi Elettra, Italy, as a post-doctoral researcher at FORTH/ICE-HT, Greece and as a post-doctoral employee at the University of California, Riverside, he joined the Fiend lab in January 2015. His current research focuses on the study of structural and catalytic properties of oxygen-activated gold surfaces under UHV conditions, with the use of high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) and temperature-programmed reaction spectroscopy (TPRS).