Manolis Tylianakis has received the B.Sc. in Physics of the University of Crete in 1992. He obtained his doctoral degree in Physical Chemistry from the Chemistry Department of the University of Crete in 1997 with work on molecular dynamics of natural and synthetic polymers and biopolymers in dilute solution by the aid of 13C NMR Spectroscopy and theoretical calculations. From 2001 to 2003 he was a visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science & Technology at the University of Crete.