Dr. Vassilis Papadakis is a Post-Doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH. He received his Ph.D degree from the Medical School of the University of Crete in 2003 and he continued as a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. His research focuses on the study of the biomolecular characteristics of cells, tissues, and biomaterials through novel imaging and spectroscopic methods.