Georgios A. Sotiriou is currently a Swiss NSF Fellow in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard University. His research focuses on engineering safer nanomaterials with superior performance but no risks to environment and human health. He investigatesbionano-interactions of nanomaterials including further life-cycle considerations. He received a PhD from ETH Zurich in 2011, where he focused on multifunctional nanosystems fortheranostics. His research has been recognized internationally by several awards including the 2011 AIChE Bionanotechnology Graduate Student award, the 2012 ETH Medal for outstanding Dissertation and the 2013 Hilti Award for Innovative Research.